How Do We Judge Confidence-Interval Adequacy?
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 41 (4) , 335-337
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1987.10475509
Abstract
Simulation studies of confidence-interval procedures often only report coverage rates. This is not sufficient to judge whether the intervals are “unbiased,” that is, whether they are equally likely to be above as below the true value if they do not cover the true value. Most procedures suggest that they are forming such intervals.Keywords
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