Original Paper

Confidence Interval for a Coefficient of Dispersion in Nonnormal Distributions

  1. Douglas G. Bonett,
  2. Edith Seier

Article first published online: 2 SEP 2005

DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410148

Issue

Biometrical Journal

Biometrical Journal

Volume 48, Issue 1, pages 144–148, February 2006

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How to Cite

Bonett, D. G. and Seier, E. (2006), Confidence Interval for a Coefficient of Dispersion in Nonnormal Distributions. Biometrical Journal, 48: 144–148. doi: 10.1002/bimj.200410148

Author Information

  1. Department of Mathematics, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 FEB 2006
  2. Article first published online: 2 SEP 2005
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 16 MAR 2005
  4. Manuscript Revised: 19 JAN 2005
  5. Manuscript Received: 24 NOV 2004

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Keywords:

  • Bootstrap;
  • Coefficient of variation;
  • Mean absolute deviation;
  • Median

Abstract

A new confidence interval for the coefficient of dispersion (mean absolute deviation from the median divided by median) is proposed and is shown to perform better than the BCa bootstrap confidence interval. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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