Exact Confidence Limits for Population Proportions Based on the Negative Hypergeometric Probability Distribution
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 83 (3_suppl) , 1216-1218
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1996.83.3f.1216
Abstract
An algorithm and FORTRAN 77 subroutine are presented to calculate exact confidence limits for the number of successes in a finite population, given a random sample drawn without replacement. The limits are calculated recursively from the negative hypergeometric probability distribution. The use of an arbitrary initial value in the recursion eliminates the computation of factorial expressions.Keywords
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