p.burrow {PEGroupTesting}

Burrow's estimate for population proportion using group testing

Description

This function estimates population proportion by group testing using Burrow's method. It is for equal group size only.

Usage

p.burrow(obs)

Arguments

obs

A 1 by 3 matrix containing the data information. Column 1 is the number of groups. Column 2 is group size. Column 3 is number of positives.

Value

Burrow's estimate for population proportion by group testing.

Author(s)

Qingyang Zhang, Yanchuan Li

References

Burrows, P. (1987) Improved estimation of pathogen transmission rates by group testing. Phytopathology. 77(363-365) <https://www.apsnet.org/publications/phytopathology/backissues/Documents/1987Articles>

Examples

library(PEGroupTesting)
mydata=matrix(c(50,10,45),nrow=1,byrow=TRUE)
p.burrow(mydata)