Bayesian confidence interval for the difference of two proportions in the matched-paired design

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2034-2051

  Shi, Lei ^a   Bai, Peng ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Confidence interval; Dirichlet prior; Equivalence or non inferiority test; Matched pair design

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; DIRICHLET PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENTIST; JEFFREY'S PRIOR; NON-INFERIORITY; PAIR DESIGN; PAIRED DESIGN; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; TESTING EQUIVALENCES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 46249122396     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920801931879     Document Type: Article

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