More powerful likelihood ratio tests for isotonic binomial proportions

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 618-630

  Tebbs, Joshua M ^a   Swallow, William H ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group testing; HIV seroprevalence; Isotonic regression; Order restricted inference; Pooled testing; Screening experiments; Vector transfer designs

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

BINARY RESPONSE; GROUP TESTING; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; ISOTONIC REGRESSION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; ORDER RESTRICTED INFERENCE; POOLED TESTING; SCREENING EXPERIMENTS; VECTOR TRANSFER; VECTOR-TRANSFER DESIGN;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 0041568264     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200390037     Document Type: Article

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