On the estimation of the proportion of positives in a sequence of screening experiments

DOI10.2307/3315686zbMath0846.62032OpenAlexW2057672451MaRDI QIDQ4883615

Susana Bleuer, Daniel Krewski, Mikelis G. Bickis

Publication date: 24 September 1996

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315686

zbMATH Keywords

derivativevariancebiasscreening experimentssignificance testoptimal estimatorsminimum mean squared errorrate of convergence to normalitycarcinogenicityacceptance functiondistribution-free estimatorempirical distribution of \(P\)-valuesmetaanalytic estimatorproportion of positives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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