Improved closed-form prediction intervals for binomial and Poisson distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1709-1718

  Krishnamoorthy, K ^a   Peng, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clopper Pearson approach; Conditional approach; Coverage probability; Hypergeometric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751701437     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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