Talk:Binomial proportion confidence interval

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The article has been labelled too technical, but I don't see it as being that much more technical than a lot of other mathematical articles. One could leave out detail to make things more succinct, but that might make it more difficult to follow. Some suggestions:

  • remove the bit on inverting hypothesis tests, and just mention the normal-derived interval is called a Wald interval, with a link
  • add a section on continuity corrections for the normal interval (and score intervals?)146.232.75.208 15:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

27 Nov 2006: I am not a statistician but I believe there may be an important error in the Wilson score interval. According to http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/~boomsma/confbin.pdf, the final term in the numerator under the square root sign should be (z squared)/(4n squared), not (z squared)/4n as is written. I don't have the mathematical capacity to determine which is correct, but for my data the former calculation makes a lot more sense than the latter, so I suspect that wikipedia's entry is wrong. I hope a statistician reviews this at some point!

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