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Activity Number: 113
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #301910
Title: Classroom Use of R: Coverage Probabilities of Poisson Interval Estimates
Author(s): Lioudmila Belan*+ and Bruce Trumbo+ and Eric Suess
Companies: California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay
Address: 707 San Conrado Terr #7, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard, Hayward, CA, 94592-3004,
Keywords: Confidence interval ; Bayesian probability interval ; Poisson mean ; R/S-Plus ; Pedagogy
Abstract:

True coverage probabilities of several nominal 95% and 99% interval estimates for the Poisson mean are computed using elementary programs in R. Among the intervals considered are frequentist confidence intervals based on normal approximation and Bayesian posterior probability intervals resulting from a non-informative prior.

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