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Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Volume 78, 2008 - Issue 12
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Interval estimation for a binomial proportion: a bootstrap approach

Panagiotis Mantalos Department of Statistics, University of Lund, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Konstantinos Zografos Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece
Pages 1251-1265 | Received 10 Jun 2007, Published online: 11 Nov 2008

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