On the confidence interval for the binomial parameter

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 467-481

  García Pérez, Miguel A ^a  

^a Campus de Somosaguas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binomial parameter; Confidence interval; Exact test; Score test; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944493052     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-005-0233-3     Document Type: Review

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