Efficient interval estimation of a ratio of marginal probabilities in matched-pair data: Non-iterative method

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2929-2935

  Nam, Jun Mo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained maximum likelihood estimators; Fieller type method; Interval estimation of a ratio of marginal probabilities; Matched pair data; Wald type log method; Wilson interval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FIELLER TYPE METHOD; MARGINAL PROBABILITY; MATCHED PAIR DATA; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALD TYPE LOGARITHMIC METHOD; WILSON CONFIDENCE INTERVAL;

BIOSTATISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS;

EID: 70449348479     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3685     Document Type: Article

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