I suggest:

A. Agresti and B. A. Coull. Approximate is better than ”exact” for interval
estimation of binomial proportions. The American Statistician,
52(2):119–126, 1998.







On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Laura Chihara <lchihara@carleton.edu>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about prop.test in R:
>
> I teach students the score confidence
> interval for proportions (also called
> Wilson or Wilson score interval).
>
> prop.test(,..., correct=FALSE) gives this
> interval.
>
> The default uses a continuity correction.
> When should we use one over the other?
> Is it worth going over this in class? Why
> is correct=TRUE the default?
>
> Thanks for any pedagogical guidance here!
>
> -- Laura
>
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