Confidence intervals are an established means of portraying uncertainty about inferred parameter and can be generated through the use confidence distributions. For a distribution to valid, it must maintain frequentist coverage true parameter. This represented for precise by adherence cumulative unit uniform distribution, comparison that is referred here as Singh plot. article extends this impre...

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Implementing public health measures with obvious benefits becomes a complex struggle when commercial interests are paramount T he evening of 25 March 2009 was cool for the community consultation — a necessary step before the implementation of fluoridation of the Cobram water supply. There were only a few people present in the Civic Centre, but they warmly applauded the initiative. None of the e...

We proposed a statistical method to construct simultaneous confidence intervals on all linear combinations of means without assuming equal variance where the classical Scheffé’s simultaneous confidence intervals no longer preserve the familywise error rate FWER . The proposed method is useful when the number of comparisons on linear combinations of means is extremely large. The FWERs for propos...