A note on Hall's triple sampling procedure: A multiple sample second order sequential analogue of the Behrens-Fisher problem

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 331-343

  Liu, Wei ^a   Wang, Nan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behrens Fisher problem; Confidence interval; Second order asymptotic; Sequential estimation; Sequential sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748419197     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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