Evaluating alternative one-sided coverage intervals for a proportion

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-588

  Liu, Yan K ^a   Ko, Phillip S ^b  

^a IRS   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage probability; Effective sample size; Stratified random sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951832689     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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