Tolerance intervals for discrete distributions in exponential families

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 905-923

  Cai, Tianwen Tony ^a   Wang, Hsiuying ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coverage probability; Edgeworth expansion; Exponential family; Probability matching; Tolerance interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449089994     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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