A geometric approach to confidence sets for ratios: Fieller's theorem, generalizations and bootstrap

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1095-1117

  Von Luxburg, Ulrike ^a   Franz, Volker H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Fieller's theorem; Index variable; Ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349235547     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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