Degree Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
1994
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Statistics
First Advisor
Herbert T. David
Abstract
This research aims to enhance the efficiency of two-stage plans, by allowing second-stage sample size and critical region to depend on first-stage evidence. This aim is implemented by certain optimizations. These optimizations are done under two types of formulation; one formulation is in a sense related to the group-sequential point of view, while the other has simultaneously a Bayes and Neyman-Pearson interpretation. By prior choice of type of optimization, the experimenter can, to some extent, pre-determine the behavior of second-stage sample size as a function of first-stage outcome for the optimal plan. Both formulations show a modest reduction in overall sampling effort, as compared with matched optimal standard two-stage plans;When the two types of formulation are merged, there results a methodology capable of easily constructing whole families of approximately optimal binomial plans, based on a single Wiener optimization.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-9743
Publisher
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/
Copyright Owner
Seoung-gon Ko
Copyright Date
1994
Language
en
Proquest ID
AAI9503575
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
112 pages
Recommended Citation
Ko, Seoung-gon, "Optimal flexible two-stage plans " (1994). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 10490.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/10490
