This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper obtains and explores a family of confidence procedures for the mean of a normal distribution which are, in a certain sense, more ...

A modified sequential procedure is put forward for the problem of estimating the mean of a normal population by a confidence interval of prescribed width and confidence coefficient, when the ...

I've become alarmed recently at the number of young engineers (i.e. those with less than 5 years of work experience), who seem to have missed the college course on applied probability and don't know ...

Business, like many other fields, can benefit from the use of statistics in estimating or predicting future events. An important tool for business statistics is a confidence interval, which helps a ...