On fixed-accuracy and bounded accuracy confidence interval estimation problems in Fisher’s “Nile” example

DOI10.1080/07474946.2016.1238264zbMath1357.62272OpenAlexW2550068767MaRDI QIDQ2958402

Yan Zhuang, Nitis Mukhopadhyay

Publication date: 1 February 2017

Published in: Sequential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474946.2016.1238264

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsmaximum likelihood estimatorsample size determinationpurely sequential samplingconfidence coefficientfixed-accuracyfixed-width``Nile examplebounded-accuracyfixed-sample-size estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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