Some Simple Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for the Center of a Symmetric Distribution
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 68 (343) , 716
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2284805
Abstract
A family of confidence intervals with endpoints that are simple averages of sample order statistics is defined. In this family the interval with shortest expected length is selected and compared to other confidence intervals for the same parameter.Keywords
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