Bruno Cernuschi-Frias was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 7, 1952. He received the Ingeniero Electromecânico Orientaciôn Electr6nica degree from the Facultad de Ingenieria de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1976 and the M . Sc. and the Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1983 and 1984 respectively . Since 1984 he has been at FIU...

The standard Wald interval is widely used in applications and textbooks because of its elementary motivation and simplicity of computation. It has been shown in several recent papers that the Wald interval suffers from a serious systematic negative bias in its coverage probability. In this article we propose confidence intervals in Binomial, Negative Binomial and Poisson distributions which hav...