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. 2023 Dec 21;51(12):2420–2435. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2023.2297157

Table 6.

Confidence intervals and prediction intervals and their [widths] for traffic data.

  Confidence intervals for the mean packet counts per second
Method 90% CI 95% CI 99% CI
Wald (294.9, 325.7) [30.8] (292.0, 328.7) [36.7] (286.2, 334.4) [48.2]
M-Wald (294.7, 325.9) [31.2] (291.6, 329.0) [37.4] (285.4, 335.2) [49.9]
Likelihood (294.5, 326.1) [31.6] (291.5, 329.1) [37.6] (285.6, 335.0) [49.5]
Score (295.3, 326.9) [31.7] (292.6, 330.3) [37.8] (287.4, 337.1) [49.8]
  Prediction intervals for the mean packet counts for a sample of 30 seconds
  90% PI 95% PI 99% PI
Wald (278.0, 342.6) [64.6] (271.8, 348.8) [77.0] (259.7, 360.9) [101]
M-Wald (277.9, 342.7) [64.8] (271.7, 349.0) [77.3] (259.4, 361.3) [102]
Likelihood (277.2, 343.4) [66.3] (270.8, 349.8) [79.0] (258.4, 362.2) [104]
JS-PI (278.0, 344.2) [66.3] (271.9, 350.9) [79.0] (260.3, 364.2) [104]