Comparison of some parametric and nonparametric type one sample confidence intervals for estimating the mean of a positively skewed distribution

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 361-389

  Banik, Shipra ^a   Kibria, B M Golam ^b  

^a INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap methods; Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Nonparametric methods; Parametric methods

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PARAMETRIC METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77951078354     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910903474530     Document Type: Article

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