On the Serfling-Wackerly Alternate Approach,

Abstract

For the problem of fixed-length interval estimation of the mean and median, the limiting distributions of the stopping rules recently introduced by Serfling and Wackerly are compared to those of Chow and Robbins as both the non-coverage probability alpha and interval length d converge to zero. The procedures based on the sample mean differ in the centering constants, while those based on the sample median also differ in the scaling constants.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA023282

Entities

People

  • Raymond J. Carroll

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Intervals
  • Probability

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Statistical inference.