Published August 7, 2020
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A note about the chaotic behavior of the Wald Interval for a binomial proportion
Description
It is well known that the coverage probability of the standard Wald
confidence interval to estimate a binomial proportion has a very erratic
behavior as a function of the parameters n (sample size) and p (probability
of success) . Till now it has been thought that this behavior was "basically
unpredictable". Nevertheless, the analysis of this behavior allows to obtain
a formula that provides, for a fixed p, all the sample sizes in which the
coverage probability decreases sharply from n-1 to n.
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/100165
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/100165
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