Comparison Of Conditional And Unconditional Confidence Intervals For The Double Exponential Distribution

Abstract

Conditional confidence intervals for the location parameter of the double exponential distribution based on maximum likelihood estimators conditioned on a set of ancillary statistics and the corresponding unconditional confidence intervals based on the maximum likelihood estimators alone are compared in two ways. Monte Carlo techniques are used and the conditional approach appears to give slightly better results although agreement as n becomes larger is noted. © 1978, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Department(s)

Mathematics and Statistics

Second Department

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Comments

Army Research Office, Grant DAAG29-77-G-0128

Keywords and Phrases

ancillary statistics; expected confidence interval lenath; maximum likelihood estimators; power of a test

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1532-4141; 0361-0918

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2023 Taylor and Francis Group; Taylor and Francis, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 1978

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