Inferences for the ratio: Fieller's interval, log ratio, and large sample based confidence intervals

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-323

  Sherman, Michael ^a   Maity, Arnab ^b   Wang, Suojin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fieller's interval; Ratio estimation; Sample surveys; Small sample inference; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960996265     PISSN: 18638171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-011-0162-5     Document Type: Article

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