Confidence Intervals for the Median of Lognormal Distribution with Restricted Parameter Mean

Sa-aat Niwitpong; Rada Somkhuean

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V29P504

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Volume 29 | Number 1 | Year 2016 | Article Id. IJMTT-V29P504 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V29P504

Confidence Intervals for the Median of Lognormal Distribution with Restricted Parameter Mean

Sa-aat Niwitpong, Rada Somkhuean

Abstract

In this paper, confidence intervals for the single median and the ratio of medians of lognormal distribution with restricted means are proposed. We derived analytic expressions to find the coverage probability and the expected length of the proposed confidence interval.

Keywords

Coverage probability, mean, expected length, Monte Carlo simulation, ratio of medians

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Citation :

Sa-aat Niwitpong, Rada Somkhuean, "Confidence Intervals for the Median of Lognormal Distribution with Restricted Parameter Mean," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 21-27, 2016. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V29P504