Confidence Intervals
Even for quite large values of n, the actual distribution of the mean is significantly nonnormal. Because of this problem several methods to estimate confidence intervals have been proposed.
Let n1 be the number of successes out of n, the total number of trials, and let
be the proportion of successes. Let zα/2 be the 100 ( 1 − α / 2 )th percentile of the standard normal distribution.
- Wald method
A continuity correction of 0.5/n may be added.
- Agresti-Coull method
Here the estimate of p is modified to
- ArcSine method
- Wilson (score) method
The exact (Clopper-Pearson) method is the most conservative. The Wald method although commonly recommended in the text books is the most biased.
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