Modifications of the Empirical Likelihood Interval Estimation with Improved Coverage Probabilities

DOI10.1080/03610910903259659zbMath1183.62075OpenAlexW2132081557MaRDI QIDQ3652754

Shuling Liu, Albert Vexler, Le Kang, Alan D. Hutson

Publication date: 16 December 2009

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610910903259659

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood ratiointerval estimationempirical likelihoodBartlett correctiontype I errornonparametric testmodified \(t\)-testsignificance levelglucose data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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