<b>Improvement of the Wald method applied to the evaluation of zero-inflated binomial linear functions

The Wald method is grounded on a statistic based on the asymptotic approximation of normal distribution. The method has shown incoherent values at a nominal level of confidence for the probability of coverage in intervallic estimates, mainly in small samples, noticeable in linear functions formed by...

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Main Authors: Cleide Silveira Brasil Peixoto, Marcelo Angelo Cirillo, Augusto Maciel da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2015-01-01
Series:Acta Scientiarum: Technology
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Online Access:http://186.233.154.254/ojs/index.php/ActaSciTechnol/article/view/21250