Construction of confidence intervals and regions for ordered binomial probabilities

American Statistician

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-298

  Li, Zhiguo ^a   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a   Nan, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial random variable; Bootstrap; Order restrictions; Small sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960988217     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2010.09096     Document Type: Article

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