Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Means of Two Independent Log-Normal Distributions

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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate confidence intervals for the ratio of means of two independent lognormal distributions. The normal approximation (NA) approach was proposed. We compared the proposed with another approaches, the ML, GCI, and MOVER. The performance of these approaches were evaluated in terms of coverage probabilities and interval widths. The Simulation studies and results showed that the GCI and MOVER approaches performed similar in terms of the coverage probability and interval width for all sample sizes. The ML and NA approaches provided the coverage probability close to nominal level for large sample sizes. However, our proposed method provided the interval width shorter than other methods. Overall, our proposed is conceptually simple method. We recommend that our proposed approach is appropriate for large sample sizes because it is consistently performs well in terms of the coverage probability and the interval width is typically shorter than the other approaches. Finally, the proposed approaches are illustrated using a real-life example.

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2769 / 2224-2880, Volume 20, 2021, Art. #5

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Lapasrada Singhasomboon, Wararit Panichkitkosolkul, Andrei Volodin, "Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Means of Two Independent Log-Normal Distributions," WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, vol. 20, pp. 45-52, 2021, DOI:10.37394/23206.2021.20.5
Lapasrada Singhasomboon, Wararit Panichkitkosolkul, Andrei Volodin. Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Means of Two Independent Log-Normal Distributions. WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics. 2021;20:45-52. 10.37394/23206.2021.20.5
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