Confidence Region for the Parameters of the Multinomial Distribution,

Abstract

When the total number of observations taken from a multinomial population with K cells, is a random variable, distributed according to the Poisson distribution, the cell frequencies are independently distributed according to the Poisson distribution. This result is used to obtain independent interval estimates of the cell probabilities. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 1971
Accession Number
AD0736156

Entities

People

  • Khursheed Alam

Organizations

  • Clemson University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Frequency
  • Intervals
  • Mathematics
  • Observation
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.