One-Sided Confidence Intervals in Discrete Distributions
J. Statistical Planning and Inference 131, 63-88, (2005).
One-Sided Confidence Intervals in Discrete Distributions
J. Statistical Planning and Inference 131, 63-88, (2005).
- Abstract: One-sided confidence intervals in the binomial, negative binomial, and Poisson distributions are considered. It is shown that the standard Wald interval suffers from a serious systematic bias in the coverage and so does the one-sided score interval. Alternative confidence intervals with better performance are considered. The coverage and length properties of the confidence intervals are compared through numerical and analytical calculations. Implications to hypothesis testing are also discussed.
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