Estimation of Population Proportion and of Probabilities of Misclassification from Imperfect Binomial Data by Comparison with Results of a Standard Method of Known Imperfection.

Abstract

Observations from inspection by a test method and a standard method are combined to provide estimators of population proportion, and of probabilities of misclassification for the test method. Results of Hochberg and Tenenbein (1983) and of Albers and Veldman (1984) are extended to the case where the standard method is not perfect, but its misclassification probabilities have known values. Both moment and maximum likelihood estimators are considered and some asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators are compared. Additional keywords: Method of moments; Binomial distribution; Statistical differentials; Approximation(Mathematics); Bias; Correlation; Covariance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159926

Entities

People

  • N. L. Johnson
  • S. Kotz

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Binomials
  • Covariance
  • Estimators
  • Inspection
  • Maryland
  • Mathematics
  • Method Of Moments
  • Military Research
  • North Carolina
  • Observation
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Test Methods
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Regression Analysis.
  • Statistical inference.