Hybrid-based confidence intervals for the ratio of two treatment means in the over-dispersed Poisson data

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 439-453

  Saha, Krishna K ^a   Bilisoly, Roger ^a   Dziuda, Darius M ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

delta method; hybrid confidence limits; mean ratio; over dispersed Poisson data; square and add approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889098351     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.840273     Document Type: Article

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