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A new short exact geometric confidence interval

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posted on 2024-11-01, 02:29 authored by John Byrne
For discrete distributions, the standard method of producing a two-sided confidence interval generates an interval that is exact but conservative. This paper proposes a new algorithm to produce a short exact geometric confidence interval with proven properties, and compares the new interval with the standard interval.

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Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volume

47

Issue

4

Start page

563

End page

569

Total pages

7

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing

Place published

Oxford, UK

Language

English

Copyright

© 2005 Australian Statistical Publishing Association Inc.

Former Identifier

2005001052

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2009-02-27

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