Closed-form confidence intervals for functions of the normal mean and standard deviation

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-359

  Donner, Allan ^a   Zou, G Y ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

coefficient of variation; Fieller's theorem; limits of agreement; measurement; method comparison; quantile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; STANDARD; VARIANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84863908111     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280210383082     Document Type: Article

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