Confidence bounds for positive ratios of normal random variables

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-317

  Ennis, Daniel M ^a   Ennis, John M ^b   Palen, Joseph ^c   Lampe, Richard E ^a  

^a Institute for Perception   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Estimation; Ratios of normal variables

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; RATIOS OF NORMAL VARIABLES;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 38349117322     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701653201     Document Type: Article

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