A Two-Stage Adaptive Group-Testing Procedure for Estimating Small Proportions

DOI10.2307/2290924zbMath0804.62094OpenAlexW4243135806MaRDI QIDQ4314919

William H. Swallow, Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver

Publication date: 1 December 1994

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2290924

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsasymptotic normalityMonte Carlo simulationsadaptive estimatormaximum likelihoodnormal approximationstrong consistencydependent datarelative efficiencytwo-stage procedureadjustments of group sizecost per unit informationgroup-testing procedures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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