Sequential confidence intervals for the number of cells in a multinomial population |
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| Authors: | Z. Govindarajulu |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Statistics , University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY, 40506, USA |
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| Abstract: | A two-sided sequential confidence interval is suggested for the number of equally probable cells in a given multinomial population with prescribed width and confidence coefficient. We establish large-sample properties of the fixed-width confidence interval procedure using a normal approximation, and some comparisons are made. In addition, a simulation study is carried out in order to investigate the finite sample behaviour of the suggested sequential interval estimation procedure. |
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| Keywords: | Two-sided sequential confidence intervals Number of cells Multinomial population Normal approximation |
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