Constructing two-sided simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomial proportions for small counts in a large number of cells

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 5, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-24

  May, Warren L ^a   Johnson, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence limits; Multinomial distribution; Truncated Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544385701     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v005.i06     Document Type: Article

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