Evaluation criteria for discrete confidence intervals: Beyond coverage and length

American Statistician

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-142

  Vos, Paul W ^a   Hudson, Suzanne ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Confidence; Coverage probability; Interval length; P value

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144428758     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313005X42453     Document Type: Article

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