Fiducial quantities are proposed to construct approximate tolerance limits and intervals for functions of some discrete random variables. Using established fiducial quantities for binomial proportions, Poisson rates, and negative binomial proportions, an approach is demonstrated to handle...

type="main" xml:id="insr12027-abs-0001" <p>The paper by Lange, Chi and Zhou (hereafter ‘the authors’) serves not only as a useful reminder about the importance of optimization techniques in implementing modern statistical methods but also as a collection of various techniques along with...</p>