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The Apache Commons Math project is a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common practical problems not immediately available in the Java programming language or commons-lang.
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package org.apache.commons.math3.stat.interval;
import org.apache.commons.math3.distribution.FDistribution;
/**
* Implements the Clopper-Pearson method for creating a binomial proportion confidence interval.
*
* @see
* Clopper-Pearson interval (Wikipedia)
* @since 3.3
*/
public class ClopperPearsonInterval implements BinomialConfidenceInterval {
/** {@inheritDoc} */
public ConfidenceInterval createInterval(int numberOfTrials, int numberOfSuccesses,
double confidenceLevel) {
IntervalUtils.checkParameters(numberOfTrials, numberOfSuccesses, confidenceLevel);
double lowerBound = 0;
double upperBound = 0;
final double alpha = (1.0 - confidenceLevel) / 2.0;
final FDistribution distributionLowerBound = new FDistribution(2 * (numberOfTrials - numberOfSuccesses + 1),
2 * numberOfSuccesses);
final double fValueLowerBound = distributionLowerBound.inverseCumulativeProbability(1 - alpha);
if (numberOfSuccesses > 0) {
lowerBound = numberOfSuccesses /
(numberOfSuccesses + (numberOfTrials - numberOfSuccesses + 1) * fValueLowerBound);
}
final FDistribution distributionUpperBound = new FDistribution(2 * (numberOfSuccesses + 1),
2 * (numberOfTrials - numberOfSuccesses));
final double fValueUpperBound = distributionUpperBound.inverseCumulativeProbability(1 - alpha);
if (numberOfSuccesses > 0) {
upperBound = (numberOfSuccesses + 1) * fValueUpperBound /
(numberOfTrials - numberOfSuccesses + (numberOfSuccesses + 1) * fValueUpperBound);
}
return new ConfidenceInterval(lowerBound, upperBound, confidenceLevel);
}
}