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Construction of Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals for Zero-Inflated Poisson Distributions Parameters |
LI ErQian\TIAN MaoZai |
Center for Applied Statistics, School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing,100872, China\School of Statistics and Information, Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, Urumuqi,830012, China |
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Abstract Interval width and coverage probability are two criteria for evaluating confidence intervals. It's quite worthwhile to investigate fixed-width confidence intervals with a prescribed nominal level, which, in generally speaking, is hardly realized in fixed-sample-size circumstances. A common way to deal with this problem is to apply sequential methods and two-stage sampling or even multi-stage sampling. For zero-inflated Poisson distribution with a probability mass $p$ and Poisson
mean parameter $\lambda$, the construction of fixed-width confidence intervals for (\lambda,p)$ is conducted in this paper, including sequential
and two-stage procedures. Each procedure is demonstrated to satisfy asymptotic consistency and efficiency. The variation of optimal fixed-sample
size by the two parameters is considered under different situations and simulation performance is displayed by Monte Carlo simulation. A real data
analysis is also implemented for application.
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Corresponding Authors:
LI ErQian\TIAN MaoZai
E-mail: mztian@ruc.edu.cn
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