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The shortest confidence interval for Poisson mean

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The existence of the shortest confidence interval for Poisson mean is shown. The method of obtaining such an interval is presented as well.

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  1. Department of Econometrics and Statistics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-767, Warsaw, Poland

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Zieliński, W. The shortest confidence interval for Poisson mean. Stat Papers 63, 2065–2072 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-022-01305-z

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