A note on bootstrap confidence intervals for proportions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2699-2702

  Wang, Weizhen ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Coverage probability; Multinomial distribution; Odds ratio; Relative risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884715150     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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