Utilisation de l’estimateur d’Agresti-Coull dans la construction d’intervalles de confiance bootstrap pour une proportion
A few bootstrap approaches exist to create confidence intervals. Some difficulties appear for the specific case of a proportion when the usual estimator, the proportion of success in a sample, is 0. In the classical case where the observations are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) from a Bernoulli distribution, the bootstrap samples only contain zeros with probability 1 and the resulting bootstrap confidence intervals are degenerate at the value 0. We are facing the same problem in the survey sampling case when we apply the bootstrap method to a sample with all observations equal to 0. A possible solution is suggested by the estimator found in the confidence intervals of [Wilson, 1927] and [Agresti et Coull, 1998] where they use ˜p the proportion of success in a augmented sample consisting of adding two successes and two failures to the original sample. The proposed solution is to use the bootstrap method on ˆp but where the bootstrap is based on the augmented sample with two additional successes and failures, whether the sample comes from i.i.d. Bernoulli variables or from a simple random sample. Results show that a version of the percentile method is the most efficient bootstrap method to construct confidence intervals for a proportion both in the classical setting or in the case of a simple random sample. Our results also show that this percentile interval can compete with the best traditional methods.
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