Table 6 Coverage rate ( cr ) of...

Table 6

Coverage rate (cr) of population median falling within confidence interval for using exact method, coverage rate (cr_N) of population median falling within confidence interval using normal approximation, population median $({\tilde{μ}}_{z})$ ⁠, average, absolute bias (|Bias|) and standard deviation (Std.Dev) of sample median with M = 10, 000 and n found in Table 1 (for c = 0.95)

f	n	α	cr	cr_N	${\tilde{μ}}_{z}$	${\tilde{Z}}_{average}$	\|Bias\|	Std.Dev
0.1	769	0	0.9731	0.9511	0.0000	−0.0037	0.0037	0.0450
		1	0.9755	0.9495	0.5449	0.5419	0.0030	0.0368
		2	0.9773	0.9489	0.6553	0.6532	0.0021	0.0310
		5	0.9728	0.9538	0.6744	0.6730	0.0014	0.0283
		10	0.9680	0.9516	0.6745	0.6730	0.0015	0.0287
0.2	193	0	0.9737	0.9524	0.0000	−0.0145	0.0145	0.0901
		1	0.9702	0.9465	0.5449	0.5332	0.0117	0.0764
		2	0.9770	0.9524	0.6554	0.6463	0.0091	0.0619
		5	0.9718	0.9486	0.6744	0.6669	0.0075	0.0573
		10	0.9685	0.9474	0.6745	0.6678	0.0067	0.0569

f	n	α	cr	cr_N	${\tilde{μ}}_{z}$	${\tilde{Z}}_{average}$	\|Bias\|	Std.Dev
0.1	769	0	0.9731	0.9511	0.0000	−0.0037	0.0037	0.0450
		1	0.9755	0.9495	0.5449	0.5419	0.0030	0.0368
		2	0.9773	0.9489	0.6553	0.6532	0.0021	0.0310
		5	0.9728	0.9538	0.6744	0.6730	0.0014	0.0283
		10	0.9680	0.9516	0.6745	0.6730	0.0015	0.0287
0.2	193	0	0.9737	0.9524	0.0000	−0.0145	0.0145	0.0901
		1	0.9702	0.9465	0.5449	0.5332	0.0117	0.0764
		2	0.9770	0.9524	0.6554	0.6463	0.0091	0.0619
		5	0.9718	0.9486	0.6744	0.6669	0.0075	0.0573
		10	0.9685	0.9474	0.6745	0.6678	0.0067	0.0569

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