Two-tailed approximate confidence intervals for the ratio of proportions

DOI10.1007/s11222-012-9353-5zbMath1325.62061OpenAlexW2095232921MaRDI QIDQ892444

A. Martín Andrés, M. Álvarez Hernández

Publication date: 19 November 2015

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-012-9353-5

zbMATH Keywords

risk ratioWald methodadjusted Wald methodapproximate confidence intervallogarithmic and arcsine transformationsscore method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

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Uses Software

• StatXact
• Z_LINEAR
• Z_LINEAR_K
• SDG

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