I've become alarmed recently at the number of young engineers (i.e. those with less than 5 years of work experience), who seem to have missed the college course on applied probability and don't know ...

This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the confidence level and sample size. The applet helps users visualize the meaning of the phrase "C% confidence," by showing that C% of the samples ...

An expected volume coefficient (EV) is defined and proposed to displace volume and selectivity as criteria for the evaluation of confidence sets, and a proposal for evaluation is given. This proposal ...

Recently there has been considerable progress on setting good approximate confidence intervals for a single parameter θ in a multi-parameter family. Here we use these frequentist results as a ...