Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management (품질경영학회지)

Korean Society for Quality Management (한국품질경영학회)
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Estimation of Defect Rate from the Screening Test - the case of unknown sensitivity and specificity -

스크리닝 검사로부터 불량률 추정에 관한 연구 - 알려지지 않은 민감도와 특이도의 경우 -

  • Published : 2002.03.01
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Abstract

Consider the problem of estimating the confidence interval of defect rate of a specified population through a screening test. Relationship between defect rate of the population and sensitivity and specificity of the screening test is discussed. More general statistical problem is introduced with the assumption of unknown imperfect specificity. An improved version of Hogan & Gladden(1978)'s estimator is proposed and discussed. Simulation studies are performed to compare the efficiency of the proposed estimator with current estimators.

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