Improved Confidence Statements for the Binomial Parameter

Citation
E. Angus, John et E. Schafer, Ray, Improved Confidence Statements for the Binomial Parameter, American statistician , 38(3), 1984, pp. 189-191
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ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
38
Issue
3
Year of publication
1984
Pages
189 - 191
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
In the computation of two-sided confidence intervals for the binomial parameter p (using the binomial mass function), it is known that such intervals achieve a confidence coefficient that in general is not equal to the confidence level 1 . ., say.In this article we present some general results on the confidence coefficient and tabulate them for selected pairs (., n = number of trials).We treat only the nominal equal tail probability case because it is the most commonly taught and used.