Small-sample comparisons of confidence intervals for the difference of two independent binomial proportions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5791-5799

  Santner, Thomas J ^a   Pradhan, Vivek ^b   Senchaudhuri, Pralay ^b   Mehta, Cyrus R ^b,c   Tamhane, Ajit ^d,e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cytel Incorporated   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Exact coverage; P value; Score statistic; Small sample; Two armed bandit; Wald statistic

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXACT COVERAGE; SCORE STATISTIC; TWO-ARMED BANDIT; WALD STATISTIC;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 34547165115     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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