A note on confidence interval estimation for a linear function of binomial proportions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1080-1085

  Zou, Guang Yong ^a,b   Huang, Wenyi ^a   Zhang, Xiaohe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE LIMIT (CL); EVALUATION RESULTS; FINITE SAMPLES; VARIANCE ESTIMATES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 58549120344     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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