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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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9. Confidence <strong>in</strong>tervals<br />

• X =( 1 ) the data, from a distribution<br />

parameterized by . An <strong>in</strong>terval [(X) ¯(X)] is<br />

an asymptotic 1 − confidence <strong>in</strong>terval (CI) if<br />

<br />

³<br />

≤ ≤ ¯´ → 1 − , for each <br />

It is a strong CI if<br />

<strong>in</strong>f ³<br />

≤ ≤ ¯´<br />

→ 1 − <br />

<br />

entail<strong>in</strong>g a form of uniformity <strong>in</strong> the convergence.<br />

(Strictly speak<strong>in</strong>g, uniformity has convergence of<br />

both <strong>in</strong>f and sup.)<br />

— We can replace by <strong>in</strong> the above, where<br />

is a nuisance parameter; the <strong>in</strong>f <strong>in</strong> the def<strong>in</strong>ition<br />

of strong CI is then taken over ( ).<br />

— Relationship to tests: We can reject : =<br />

0 <strong>in</strong> favour of : 6= 0 iff 0 ∈ [ ¯], this<br />

def<strong>in</strong>es a level test, asymptotically.

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