Weighted confidence interval construction for binomial parameters

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-46

  Olivier, Jake ^a   May, Warren L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32544450620     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0962280206sm425oa     Document Type: Article

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