Estimation of proportion of success from a stratified population: A comparative study

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 9 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 2245-2257

  Nanthakumar, A ^a   Selvavel, K ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial proportion; Interval estimation; Stratified population

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING;

BINOMIAL PROPORTION; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; NOMINAL CONFIDENCE LEVEL; STRATIFIED POPULATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 7544220934     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200026603     Document Type: Article

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