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Activity Number: 510
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #308558
Title: Fitting Curves to Nested Confidence Intervals
Author(s): Bob Blodgett*+
Companies: Food and Drug Administration
Address: 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD, 20740,
Keywords: Risk assessment
Abstract:

A curve can be fit to a confidence interval and an estimate it contains. This allows the uncertainty in the measurement to be used with the estimate. When nested confidence intervals are available at several different levels, they can be fit with a single curve defined piecewise.

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