This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper obtains and explores a family of confidence procedures for the mean of a normal distribution which are, in a certain sense, more ...

A confidence interval is a statistical concept that shows how likely it is that a range based on a sample of a population contains the mean, or the actual figure, for that data set. It’s useful when a ...

This example considers a data set given in Lawless (1982). The data are the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last two observations are censored. Maximum ...