A Simple Sample Size Formula for Estimating Means of Poisson Random Variables

2008/04/18 by Xinjia Chen, Chen, Xinjia
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring #Applications (stat.AP) #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR) #Statistics Theory (math.ST) #math.PR #math.ST #stat.AP #stat.TH

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0804.3033

6 pages, nofigure

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Abstract

In this paper, we derive an explicit sample size formula based a mixed criterion of absolute and relative errors for estimating means of Poisson random variables.

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