Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-18-2010

Abstract

A simultaneous confidence band (SCB) for the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of a random variable can be used to assess the statistical uncertainty of the estimated cdf. Cheng and Iles (1983) presented a general approach of constructing an SCB for the cdf of a continuous random variable derived from a 100 (1 - α) % simultaneous confidence region (SCR) for the parameters of the distribution. The Cheng and Iles SCB procedure includes the true cdf with probability at least (1 - α). This paper identifies the conditions under which the coverage probability for the SCB procedure is exactly (1 - α). A small simulation illustrates the important theoretical results in the paper. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Statistics and Probability Letters

First Page

733

Last Page

738

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