Simultaneous confidence sets and confidence intervals for multiple ratios

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2640-2658

  Dilba, Gemechis ^a   Bretz, Frank ^b   Guiard, Volker ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fieller's theorem; Multivariate t distribution; Ratios; Resampling; Simultaneous confidence intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645896425     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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