EXACT CONFIDENCE-LIMITS FOR POPULATION PROPORTIONS BASED ON THE NEGATIVE HYPERGEOMETRIC PROBABILITY-DISTRIBUTION

Authors
BERRY KJ MIELKE PW
Citation
Kj. Berry et Pw. Mielke, EXACT CONFIDENCE-LIMITS FOR POPULATION PROPORTIONS BASED ON THE NEGATIVE HYPERGEOMETRIC PROBABILITY-DISTRIBUTION, Perceptual and motor skills, 83(3), 1996, pp. 1216-1218
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
83
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
1216 - 1218
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1996)83:3<1216:ECFPPB>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
An algorithm and FORTRAN 77 subroutine are presented to calculate exac t confidence limits for the number of successes in a finite population , given a random sample drawn without replacement. The limits are calc ulated recursively from the negative hypergeometric probability distri bution. The use of an arbitrary initial value in the recursion elimina tes the computation of factorial expressions.