Optimal sample sizes for estimating the difference in means between two normal populations treating confidence interval length as a random variable

DOI10.1080/03610929708831945MaRDI QIDQ4346838zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yue Wang, Lawrence L. Kupper

Publication date 21 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929708831945

zbMATH Keywords

normalityoptimal sample size ratiopopulation mean difference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Parametric inference (62F99)

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• Sample Size Determination for Confidence Intervals on the Population Mean and on the Difference Between Two Population Means

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