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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Sampling Errors for Small Percentages in a Gaming Survey
by
Mike Doherty
Statistics New Zealand

In the 1999 Gaming Survey, there was interest in measuring quite rare characteristics. The usual assumption that the sampling distribution of the estimates was normal was not appropriate. Statistics New Zealand examined some alternatives, and decided to use the method of Korn and Graubard (Survey Methodology, 1988 pp 193-201) to produce confidence intervals. I will describe some of our studies on this question.

Date received: November 12, 2001

Copyright © 2001 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caid-75.