Improved confidence intervals for a binomial parameter using the bayesian method |
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| Authors: | Wang-Shu Lu |
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| Institution: | Department of Statistics and Applied Probability , National University of Singapore , Singapore, 117543 |
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| Abstract: | Constructing confidence intervals for a binomial proportion parameter using the Bayesian technique is considered. For an appropriate choice of priors, the proposed Bayes confidence intervals may, in frequentist performance, uniformly improve the traditional C-P (Clopper and Pearson, 1934) confidence intervals when the sample size is not large (n < 30). |
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| Keywords: | Bayesian method Binomial distribution Confidence coefficient Confidence level: Frequentist |
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