Thread: Confidence Interval of Unrelated Events
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Old 01-08-2005, 03:41 PM
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Default Confidence Interval of Unrelated Events
Suppose I have two independent characteristics, x and y.

I want to determine a confidence interval for x+y with alpha = a.

Is it correct to take CI(x,sqrt(a)) + CI(y,sqrt(a)) to get the CI(x+y,a)?
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