Coverage of confidence intervals based on conditional probability

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Mandelkern, Mark ^a   Schultz, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neutrino Physics; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243477666     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/036     Document Type: Article

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