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Theory and Method

Quick Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Multinomial Proportions

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Pages 875-878 | Received 01 Jul 1986, Published online: 12 Mar 2012
 

Abstract

Opinion polls often give an indication of sampling error based on the standard conservative confidence intervals for a single binomial proportion. We give a lower bound for the simultaneous coverage probability when such intervals are applied to all of the proportions in a poll. This bound is equal to 1 – 2α. for small values of α. The same result is shown to apply to the standard confidence intervals for changes in proportions between surveys.

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