Generalised Clopper-Pearson confidence intervals for the binomial proportion

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 489-508

  Puza, Borek ^a   O'neill, Terence ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binomial proportion; Clopper Pearson; Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Expected length; Generalised; Mid P; Randomised; Tail function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744989247     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360500107527     Document Type: Article

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