On distribution-free lower confidence limits for the mean of a nonnegative random variable

M. Breth, J. S. Maritz, E. J. Williams

Biometrika · 1978 · 16 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

A method for setting a distribution-free lower confidence limit for the mean of a non-negative random variable is developed, and compared with the procedure which relies on asymptotic normality of the distribution of the sample mean.

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