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Abstract
The Wald confidence interval for a binomial p should be completely gone by now from teaching as the interval to present and recommend. In reality, this unfortunately not so. This article makes a strong case for instead introducing the Wilson interval even in a first course in statistical inference.
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Per Gösta Andersson
Per Gösta Andersson is from Sweden and earned his PhD in mathematical statistics from Gothenburg University. He has worked at several Swedish universities and is currently an associate professor in statistics in the department of statistics at Stockholm University. His main research area is estimation and asymptotics in survey sampling.