Simple approximate procedure for constructing binomial and poisson tolerance intervals

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2243-2258

  Krishnamoorthy, K ^a   Xia, Yanping ^b   Xie, Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clopper Pearson confidence interval; Coverage probability; Expected widths; Score confidence interval; Two sided tolerance interval

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE PROCEDURES; CLOSED FORM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; EXPECTED WIDTHS; MINIMUM COVERAGE; TOLERANCE INTERVAL;

PROBABILITY;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84856533839     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610921003786848     Document Type: Article

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