Generalized confidence intervals for the ratio of means of two normal populations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-60

  Lee, Jack C ^a   Lin, Shu Hui ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fieller's theorem; Generalized confidence interval; Generalized p values; Generalized pivotal quantity; Heteroscedasticity; Pseudo Behrens Fisher problem; Ratio estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642274931     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(03)00141-1     Document Type: Article

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