Confidence Intervals for Gini's Diversity Measure and Shannon's Entropy Using Adjusted Proportions

DOI10.1081/STA-120019954zbMath1100.62552MaRDI QIDQ4807613

Steven G. From

Publication date: 19 May 2003

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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