Nonconservative exact small-sample inference for discrete data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6447-6458

  Agresti, Alan ^a   Gottard, Anna ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Clopper Pearson confidence interval; Fuzzy inference; Mid P value

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLOPPER-PEARSON CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MID-P-VALUE;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 34547258034     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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