Confidence curves and improved exact confidence intervals for discrete distributions

DOI10.2307/3315916zbMath0966.62016OpenAlexW2058585360MaRDI QIDQ2714930

Helge Blaker

Publication date: 17 August 2001

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8d9b81ea4967edec74d9fd9b71559325b3449fca

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionnegative binomial distributionbinomial distributionacceptabilityhypergeometric distributionp-valuenested conficence regions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

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