A note on estimating the number of errors in a system by recapture sampling
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A note on estimating the number of errors in a system by recapture sampling
zbMATH Open document ID: 0665.62105
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(88)90049-1
author: Tapan K. Nayak
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Some distributional results related to the recapture debugging experiment of the author [Biometrika 75, No.1, 113-120 (1988; Zbl 0635.62102)] for estimating the number of errors, N, in a software are obtained. It is proved that while the sufficient statistics are complete, an unbiased estimator of N based on them does not exist.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62N05
zbMATH DE Number: 4088794
zbMATH Keywords: software reliability
zbMATH Keywords: completeness
zbMATH Keywords: recapture debugging experiment
zbMATH Keywords: sufficient statistics
zbMATH Keywords: unbiased estimator
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0167-7152(88)90049-1
OpenAlex ID: W2034632311
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