If your sample is taken from a finite population, you might find the
following answer given to my question on "exact confidence intervals for
proportions" in 06/2000 useful:
<http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2000/1410.html>.
Basically it shows that you could simply use uniroot and phyper in that
case.
Heinrich.
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> Von: Luis A. Izquierdo[SMTP:lizquierdo at finlay.edu.cu]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. September 2001 03:55
> An: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Betreff: [R] Exact conf. interval for one proportion
>
> Dear R people:
>
> I need to estimates some confidence intervals for one proportion.
> Reference
> for binom.test
> in ctest package, I suspect is so old and perhaps now there are better
> methods. Wrong
> or not?
> Please, I need your advise.
>
> Luis A Izquierdo
> Dpto Estadistica / Instituto Finlay
> Cuba
>
> lizquierdo at finlay.edu.cu
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