Confidence intervals for mean absolute deviations

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 233-236

  Bonett, Douglas G ^a   Seier, Edith ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Interval estimation; Sample size; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242626872     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130032323     Document Type: Article

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