Chapter 2
The Dichotomous Data Problem
Introduction
In this chapter the primary focus is on the dichotomous data problem. The data consists of independent repeated Bernoulli trials having constant probability of success
. On the basis of these outcomes, we wish to make inferences about
. Section 2.1 introduces the binomial distribution and presents a binomial test for the hypothesis
, where
is a specified success probability. Section 2.2 gives a point estimator
for
. Section 2.3 presents confidence intervals for
. Section 2.3 also contains the generalization of the binomial distribution to the multinomial distribution, confidence intervals for multinomial probabilities and a test that the multinomial ...
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