An improved confidence interval for a linear function of binomial proportions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-456

  Price, Robert M ^a   Bonett, Douglas G ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Laplace estimate; Maximum likelihood estimate; Wald interval

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

BINOMIALS; LINEAR FUNCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842731043     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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