Improving interval estimation of binomial proportions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1874, 2008, Pages 2405-2418

  Zhou, X H ^a,b   Li, C M ^c   Yang, Z ^d  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binomial; Confidence interval; Diagnostic accuracy; Edgeworth expansion; Skewness

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION;

CLINICAL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; EDGEWORTH EXPANSION; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; JEFFREYS; LOGIT TRANSFORMATION;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 45749130252     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0037     Document Type: Article

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