Distributions of Sequential and Two-Stage Stopping Times for Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals in Bernoulli Trials: Application in Reliability

DOI10.1080/07474940701620907zbMath1124.62055OpenAlexW2062574430MaRDI QIDQ5431476

Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Shelemyahu Zacks

Publication date: 10 December 2007

Published in: Sequential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474940701620907

zbMATH Keywords

exponential distributionssequential samplingBernoulli trialsfixed-width confidence intervalstwo-stage samplinglog-oddsratio of mtbfs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability and life testing (62N05) Sequential estimation (62L12) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15)

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