Calculates confidence intervals based upon a parametric distribution.
Arguments
- point
The point estimate.
- se
The standard error of the point estimate. If using a non-"normal" distribution this should be set to 1.
- alpha
The type 1 error rate, should be a value between 0 and 1.
- alternative
a character string specifying the alternative hypothesis, must be one of "two.sided" (default), "greater" or "less".
- qfun
The quantile function for the assumed distribution i.e.
qnorm
.- pfun
The CDF function for the assumed distribution i.e.
pnorm
.- ...
additional arguments passed on
qfun
andpfun
i.e.df = 102
.