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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/CKSS.2009.16.3.501

Confidence Intervals for a Proportion in Finite Population Sampling  

Lee, Seung-Chun (Department of Statistics, Hanshin University)
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Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods / v.16, no.3, 2009 , pp. 501-509 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently the interval estimation of binomial proportions is revisited in various literatures. This is mainly due to the erratic behavior of the coverage probability of the well-known Wald confidence interval. Various alternatives have been proposed. Among them, the Agresti-Coull confidence interval, the Wilson confidence interval and the Bayes confidence interval resulting from the noninformative Jefferys prior were recommended by Brown et al. (2001). However, unlike the binomial distribution case, little is known about the properties of the confidence intervals in finite population sampling. In this note, the property of confidence intervals is investigated in anile population sampling.
Keywords
Wald interval; Agresti-Coull interval; Wilson interval; Weighted Polya posterior interval; exact interval; combined interval; hypergeometric distribution;
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