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Valid confidence intervals for μ,σμ, σ when there is only one observation available

Abstract

Portnoy (2019) considered the problem of constructing an optimal confidence interval for the mean based on a single observation XN(μ,σ2)\, X \sim {\cal{N}}(\mu , \, \sigma^2) \,. Here we extend this result to obtaining 1-sample confidence intervals for σ\, \sigma \, and to cases of symmetric unimodal distributions and of distributions with compact support. Finally, we extend the multivariate result in Portnoy (2019) to allow a sample of size m\, m \, from a multivariate normal distribution where mm may be less than the dimension.

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