Confidence regions for the multinomial parameter with small sample size

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 487, 2009, Pages 1071-1079

  Chafaï, Djalil ^a   Concordet, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence region; Multinomial distribution; Small sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349780970     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08152     Document Type: Article

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