On matching confidence intervals and tests for some discrete distributions: methodological and computational aspects
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On small-sample confidence intervals for parameters in discrete distributions.
The traditional definition of a confidence interval requires the coverage probability at any value of the parameter to be at least the nominal confidence level. In constructing such intervals for parameters in discrete distributions, less conservative behavior results from inverting a single two-sided test than inverting two separate one-sided tests of half the nominal level each. We illustrate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computational Statistics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0943-4062,1613-9658
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-020-00986-0