On exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations

Philip L.H. Yu; Yijun Sun; Bimal K. Sinha

doi:10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00052-X

On exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations

Philip L.H. Yu
, Yijun Sun
, Bimal K. Sinha

Microbiology and Immunology

The University of Hong Kong
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of constructing exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations with unknown and possibly unequal variances. Several procedures based on pivots and P-values are discussed and compared.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-277
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Volume	81
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00052-X
State	Published - Nov 1 1999

Keywords

Common mean
Confidence interval
Fisher's method
Graybill-Deal estimator
P-values
Pivots

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