A Simulation Study Comparing Various Confidence Intervals for the Mean of Voucher Populations in Accounting
Description:
This research examined the performance of three parametric methods for confidence intervals: the classical, the Bonferroni, and the bootstrap-t method, as applied to estimating the mean of voucher populations in accounting. Usually auditing populations do not follow standard models. The population for accounting audits generally is a nonstandard mixture distribution in which the audit data set contains a large number of zero values and a comparatively small number of nonzero errors. This study …
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Date:
December 1992
Creator:
Lee, Ihn Shik
Partner:
UNT Libraries