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Sankhya-Series A-Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Document Type

Pre-Print

Publication Date

5-24-2024

Subjects

Mathematics

Abstract

Portnoy (2019) considered the problem of constructing an optimal confidence interval for the mean based on a single observation X ∼ N(µ, σ2). Here we extend this result to obtaining 1-sample confidence intervals for σ and to cases of symmetric unimodal distributions and of distributions with compact support. Finally, we extend the multivariate result in Portnoy (2019) to allow a sample of size m from a multivariate normal distribution where m may be less than the dimension.

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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published as: Valid Confidence Intervals for µ,σ When There Is Only One Observation Available. Sankhya A, 1-12.

DOI

10.1007/s13171-023-00338-2

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42015

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