Nonparametric Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for The Population Mean of a Zero-Truncated Poisson-Lindley Distribution and Their Application

Wannaphon  Suriyakat; Wararit Panichkitkosolkul

doi:10.59796/jcst.V13N3.2023.1077

Authors

Wannaphon Suriyakat Faculty of Science and Technology, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand
Wararit Panichkitkosolkul Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59796/jcst.V13N3.2023.1077

Keywords:

Bootstrap interval, Count data, Interval estimation, Lindley distribution, Simulation

Abstract

Recently, the zero-truncated Poisson-Lindley distribution has been proposed for studying count data containing non-zero values. However, the nonparametric bootstrap confidence interval estimation of the population mean has not yet been studied. In this study, confidence interval estimation based on percentile, simple, and biased-corrected bootstrap methods was compared in terms of coverage probability and average interval length via Monte Carlo simulation. The true values of parameter ( $gif.latex?\Theta$ ) were set as 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2, and the population means are approximate 7.7586, 4.0909, 2.4000, 1.8817, and 1.6364, respectively. The bootstrap samples ( $gif.latex?\beta$ =1,000) of size were generated from the original sample, and each simulation was repeated 1,000 times. The results indicate that attaining the nominal confidence level using the bootstrap confidence intervals was impossible for small sample sizes regardless of the other settings. Moreover, when the sample size was large, the performance of the nonparametric bootstrap confidence intervals was not substantially different. Overall, the bias-corrected bootstrap confidence interval outperformed the others, even for small sample sizes. Last, the nonparametric bootstrap confidence intervals were used to calculate the confidence interval for the population mean of the zero-truncated Poisson-Lindley distribution via two numerical examples, the results of which match those from the simulation study.

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