Confidence and credibility intervals for the difference of two proportions;Intervalos de confianza y de credibilidad para la diferencia de dos proporciones

Revista Colombiana de Estadistica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-88

  Zhang, Hanwen ^a   Rojas, Hugo Andrés Gutiérrez ^a   Cuervo, Edilberto Cepeda ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Credibility intervals; Difference of two proportions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957230300     PISSN: 01201751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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