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Confidence Interval for a Coefficient of Dispersion in Nonnormal Distributions
Author(s) -
Bonett Douglas G.,
Seier Edith
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.200410148
Subject(s) - confidence interval , statistics , mathematics , dispersion (optics) , cdf based nonparametric confidence interval , coefficient of variation , interval (graph theory) , robust confidence intervals , tolerance interval , standard deviation , physics , combinatorics , optics
A new confidence interval for the coefficient of dispersion (mean absolute deviation from the median divided by median) is proposed and is shown to perform better than the BC a bootstrap confidence interval. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)