Confidence intervals for a population proportion using group testing in the presence of misclassification

DOI10.1080/03610918.2014.957846MaRDI QIDQ2965564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wenjun Xiong, Juan Ding

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2014.957846

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalmeasurement errorgroup testingpopulation proportion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

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