One-sided confidence intervals in discrete distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-88

  Tony Cai, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Binomial distribution; Confidence intervals; Coverage probability; Edgeworth expansion; Expected length; Hypothesis testing; Jeffreys prior; Negative Binomial distribution; Normal approximation; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 13344280339     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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