Two-Stage and Sequential Unbiased Estimation of N in Binomial Trials, when the Probability of Success p is Unknown

2021/12/31 by Malinovsky, Yaakov, Zacks, Shelemyahu
#62L05 #62L12 #Applications (stat.AP) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Methodology (stat.ME)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.15254

Abstract

We propose two-stage and sequential procedures to estimate the unknown parameter N of a binomial distribution with unknown parameter p, when we reinforce data with an independent sample of a negative-binomial experiment having the same p.

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