Problems with binomial two-sided tests and the associated confidence intervals

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Vos, Paul W ^a   Hudson, Suzanne ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Confidence interval; One sided test; Two sided test

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849113288     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2007.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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