An Empirical Bayes Group-Testing Approach to Estimating Small Proportions

DOI10.1081/STA-120019957MaRDI QIDQ4807616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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

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

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