Exact Optimal Confidence Intervals for Hypergeometric Parameters

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 512, 2015, Pages 1491-1499

  Wang, Weizhen ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture sampling; Coverage probability; One sided interval; Set inclusion; Two sided interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954433838     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.966191     Document Type: Article

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