Propagating imprecision: Combining confidence intervals from independent sources

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3154-3180

  Newcombe, Robert G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; MOVER; Propagating imprecision; Substitution

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MONOTONICITY; MOVER; PROPAGATING IMPRECISION; SUBSTITUTION METHOD; WORKING RANGE;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 79960379470     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610921003764225     Document Type: Article

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