Journal of Probability and Statistics
Volume 2013, Article ID 603297, 24 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/603297
Research Article
Exact Group Sequential Methods for Estimating a Binomial Proportion
1Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
Received 23 May 2012; Revised 1 October 2012; Accepted 9 October 2012
Academic Editor: Xuelin Huang
Copyright © 2013 Zhengjia Chen and Xinjia Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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