p.order {PEGroupTesting}

Order statistics estimate for population proportion using group testing

Description

This function estimates the population proportion using order statistics method (Ding and Xiong 2016). It is for equal group size only.

Usage

p.order(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

Order statistics estimate for population proportion in group testing

Author(s)

Qingyang Zhang, Yanchuan Li

References

Ding, J. and Xiong, W. (2016) A new estimator for a population proportion using group testing. Communication in Statistics-Simulation and Computation. 45(101-114) <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2013.854909>

Examples

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