Bayesian estimation of the complete sample size from an incomplete poisson sample |
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| Authors: | WO Williford WJan Shan |
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| Institution: | Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VA Medical Center , Perry Point, MD, 21902 |
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| Abstract: | For the Poisson a posterior distribution for the complete sample size, N, is derived from an incomplete sample when any specified subset of the classes are missing.Means as well as other posterior characteristics of N are obtained for two examples with various classes removed. For the special case of a truncated ‘missing zero class’ Poisson sample a simulation experiment is performed for the small ‘N=25’ sample situation applying both Bayesian and maximum likelihood methods of estimation. |
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| Keywords: | Incomplete Poisson estimating sample size Bayesian estimation simulation |
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