Fully specified bootstrap confidence intervals for the difference of two independent binomial proportions based on the median unbiased estimator

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2876-2890

  Lin, Yan ^a   Newcombe, Robert G ^b   Lipsitz, Stuart ^c   Carter, Rickey E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Median unbiased estimate

Indexed keywords

AGRESTI AND CAFFO METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHEN QUASI EXACT METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDIAN UNBIASED ESTIMATE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; WALD INTERVALS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449380622     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3670     Document Type: Article

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