Estimating the population coefficient of variation by confidence intervals

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1236-1261

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

^a INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap methods; Coefficient of variation; Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Simulation study; Skewed distributions

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVERAGE PROBABILITY; SIMULATION STUDY; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79956131077     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2011.568151     Document Type: Article

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