Confidence intervals for the variance of a normal distribution with unknown mean are constructed which improve upon the usual shortest interval based on the sample variance alone. These intervals have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper obtains and explores a family of confidence procedures for the mean of a normal distribution which are, in a certain sense, more ...

If hypertension was predominantly genetic, increase in mean BP in populations over time would be associated with unchanged measures of dispersion (variance, standard deviations, coefficient of ...