Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10492987 Journal of Business Research 2015 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
We report the results of a meta-analysis study of the relative accuracies for a range of methods for aggregating confidence interval estimates of unknown quantities. We found that a simple “trim-and-average” method-that is, remove outliers and then average-produced the most accurate estimates. Our results show that more complicated methods of confidence interval aggregation, which factor in confidence levels and estimate imprecisions, do not produce estimates more accurate than those produced by the simple trim-and-average method.
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