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In this chapter we describe methods for finding interval or set estimators mainly illustrated using random samples from the normal distribution.

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Rohde, C.A. (2014). Interval Estimation. In: Introductory Statistical Inference with the Likelihood Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10461-4_4

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