A note on Woodruff confidence intervals for quantiles

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 353-358

  Sitter, Randy R ^a   Wu, Changbao ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex survey; Distribution function; Percentiles; Stratified

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042867393     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00207-8     Document Type: Article

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