Estimation of the Coefficient of Variation with Minimum Risk: A Sequential Method for Minimizing Sampling Error and Study Cost

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 627-648

  Chattopadhyay, Bhargab ^a   Kelley, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

accuracy; Coefficient of variation; minimum risk; precision; research design; sample size planning; sequential analysis; sequential point estimation; stopping rule; U statistics

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING ERROR; SCIENTIST; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; RISK; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84981554611     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2016.1203279     Document Type: Article

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