Confidence intervals show the likelihood a data range contains the true mean, aiding investment decisions. A wider interval suggests lower estimate accuracy, influencing market and risk analysis ...

Methods described first by Madansky (1965) and revived more recently by Cox & Oakes (1984, pp. 51-2) are extended to incorporate the calculation of likelihood-based confidence intervals for functions ...

The recent method of Serfling and Wackerly (1976) for constructing fixed-width confidence intervals for the center of location is extended to include M estimators. The resultant class of procedures is ...

Geoff Cumming receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Such research findings sound exciting because the word significant suggests important and large. But researchers often use the word ...