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ENH: proportion_confint only has two-sided confidence intervals, no "alternative" option

Open josef-pkt opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

see https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/646445/multinomial-one-sided-confidence-intervals

same for multinomial_proportions_confint

I think for proportion_confint it should be just one interval at 2*alpha, except for "beta-test" which is minlike, and the one-sided will correspond to one side of equal-tail intervals.

I don't have a guess on one-sided interval for multinomial_proportions_confint. (too long ago). But it might be based on an equal-tail derivation.

josef-pkt avatar May 04 '24 12:05 josef-pkt