Confidence interval from a relative normal pivot

ID: confidence-interval-from-a-relative-normal-pivot

Suppose and a positive estimator satisfies . Choose the standard normal quantile . For , an asymptotic confidence interval of level is
Proof. Convergence in distribution gives . Multiplication by the positive and rearrangement makes this event equivalent to . Both factors are positive when , so division yields exactly the displayed interval. Thus its coverage probability tends to . For coverage, . This inversion retains the unknown scale in the normalized error, rather than replacing it by the observed estimator before inversion.

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