Fixed width confidence intervals for the location parameter of an exponential distribution

DOI10.1080/03610928208828311zbMath0559.62030OpenAlexW1967691390MaRDI QIDQ5185836

J. W. J. van Wyk, Jan W. H. Swanepoel

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928208828311

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionexponential distributionasymptotic behaviourstopping ruleexpected sample sizefixed width confidence intervalssecond order resultssequential procedures with non-asymptotic coverage probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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