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One and two sample confidence intervals for estimating the mean of skewed populations: an empirical comparative study

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In this paper, the authors consider and propose some confidence intervals for estimating the mean or difference of means of skewed populations, and extend the median t interval to the two sample problem, and suggest using the bootstrap to find the critical points for use in the calculation of median t intervals.
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In this paper we consider and propose some confidence intervals for estimating the mean or difference of means of skewed populations. We extend the median t interval to the two sample problem. Further, we suggest using the bootstrap to find the critical points for use in the calculation of median t intervals. A simulation study has been made to compare the performance of the intervals and a real life example has been considered to illustrate the application of the methods.

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Parametric and nonparametric confidence intervals for estimating the difference of means of two skewed populations

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Empirical Likelihood Ratio Confidence Regions

Art B. Owen
- 01 Mar 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical likelihood ratio function is defined and used to obtain confidence regions for vector valued statistical functionals, and an effective method is presented for computing empirical profile likelihoods for the mean of a vector random variable.
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Modified t Tests and Confidence Intervals for Asymmetrical Populations

TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure that reduces the effect of population skewness on the distribution of the t variable so that tests about the mean can be more correctly computed is proposed.
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On the Removal of Skewness by Transformation

TL;DR: In this article, empirical transformations for removing most of the skewness of an asymmetric statistic were proposed, which can be used as the basis for accurate confidence procedures or hypothesis tests and can be employed in conjunction with either a normal approximation or the bootstrap.
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Edgeworth corrected pivotal statistics and the bootstrap

TL;DR: In this paper, a general procedure for multistage modification of pivotal statistics is developed to improve the normal approximation, and explicit formulae are given for some basic cases involving independent random samples and samples drawn without replacement.
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