A procedure based on order statistics is given for the interval estimation of the largest α-quantile of several continuous distributions. Results on infimum of coverage probability are obtained for ...

The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...

Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness: tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression ...

A procedure for interval estimation of the shape parameter of the gamma distribution is proposed which enables the experimenter to obtain upper and lower confidence limits after each observation is ...