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In this paper we construct shortest confidence intervals for families of distributions involving two unknown truncation parameters. The method used is that of the pivotal quantity.
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Ferentinos, K., Kourouklis, S. Shortest confidence interval estimation for families of distributions involving two truncation parameters. Metrika 37, 353–363 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613544
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