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Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Poisson Distribution: A Review
Author(s) -
Sahai Hardeo,
Khurshid Anwer
Publication year - 1993
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.4710350716
Subject(s) - confidence interval , statistics , poisson distribution , mathematics , cdf based nonparametric confidence interval , robust confidence intervals , confidence distribution , binomial proportion confidence interval , negative binomial distribution
The paper provides a comprehensive review of methodology for setting confidence intervals for the parameter of a Poisson distribution. The results are illustrated by a numerical example.