Improving the normal approximation when constructing one-sided confidence intervals for binomial or Poisson parameters

DOI10.1093/biomet/69.3.647zbMath0493.62036OpenAlexW2075868400MaRDI QIDQ3956235

Hall, Peter

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/69.3.647

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionnormal approximationbinomial distributionone-sided confidence intervalsrounding errorcontinuity correctioncorrecting for skewness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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