An Improved Confidence Interval for a Linear Function of Binomial Proportions

Creator(s)

Robert M. Price, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow
Douglas G. Bonett, Iowa State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-10-2004

Description

We propose a simple adjustment to a Wald confidence interval to estimate a linear function of binomial proportions. This method is an extension to the adjusted Wald confidence intervals for proportions and their differences that have recently been proposed.

Citation Information

Price, Robert M.; and Bonett, Douglas G.. 2004. An Improved Confidence Interval for a Linear Function of Binomial Proportions. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Vol.45(3). 449-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00007-0 ISSN: 0167-9473