An Empirical Bayes Group-Testing Approach to Estimating Small Proportions

DOI10.1081/STA-120019957zbMath1100.62535MaRDI 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

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62C12: Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures

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