Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1152677 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A simultaneous confidence band (SCB) for the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of a random variable can be used to assess the statistical uncertainty of the estimated cdf. Cheng and Iles (1983) presented a general approach of constructing an SCB for the cdf of a continuous random variable derived from a 100(1−α)%100(1−α)% simultaneous confidence region (SCR) for the parameters of the distribution. The Cheng and Iles SCB procedure includes the true cdf with probability at least (1−α)(1−α). This paper identifies the conditions under which the coverage probability for the SCB procedure is exactly (1−α)(1−α). A small simulation illustrates the important theoretical results in the paper.
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Authors
Yili Hong, Luis A. Escobar, William Q. Meeker,