SEQUENTIAL CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR A POPULATION SIZE WITH FIXED PROPORTIONAL ACCURACY

DOI10.1081/SQA-100102644MaRDI QIDQ2747090zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kiheon Choi, Ruby Chiu-Hsing Weng, Michael Woodroofe

Publication date 5 December 2001

Published in Sequential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1081/SQA-100102644

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionconvergence in distributionexponential distributionshidden objectsorder statisticsPoisson processessimulationstopping times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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