An Empirical Bayes Group-Testing Approach to Estimating Small Proportions

DOI10.1081/STA-120019957zbMath1100.62535OpenAlexW1980347810MaRDI QIDQ4807616

Barry Kurt Moser, Joshua M. Tebbs, Christopher R. Bilder

Publication date: 19 May 2003

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1081/sta-120019957

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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• Bayesian analysis of screening data: Application to AIDS in blood donors
• Bayesian Models for Limiting Dilution Assay and Group Test Data
• Group Testing for Sensitive Characteristics: Extension to Higher Prevalence Levels
• Sensitivity Analysis of Variable‐Size Group Testing and its Related Continuous Models
• The Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistical Decision Problems

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