Optimal Sequentially Planned Decision Procedures: v. 79 (Lecture Notes in Statistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540979085 ISBN 13: 9783540979081

Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This volume is concerned with statistical procedures where the data are collected in sequentially designed groups. The basic premise here is that the expected total sample size is not always the appropriate criterion for evaluating statistical procedures, especially for nonlinear sampling costs (eg. additive fixed costs) and in clinical trials. In fact, this criterion seems to have been a hindrance to the practical use of Wald's sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) despite its well-known optimum properties. This volume systematically develops decision procedures which retain the possibility of early stopping and remove some of the disadvantages of one-at-a-time sampling. In particular, for generalizations of the SPRT algorithms, methods for computing characteristics (such as operating characteristics or power functions, expected sampling costs, etc) are developed and implemented. The procedures turn out to be optimal in a Bayesian sense as well as for problems with side conditions (eg. specified bounds on error probabilities or expected sampling costs). A theory of optimal sampling is developed in order to prove the various properties of the procedures.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540979085
• ISBN 13: 9783540979081
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 221
• Herausgeber: Schmitz Norbert
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