Investigations on Some Attributes of the Likelihood Function for MPN Determination

✍ Scribed by Dipl.-Math. W. Diener

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710290114

✦ Synopsis

The paper investigah the likelihood function to determine the MPN (Most Probable Kumber as a mekure of concentration in the virology), dependent on several parameters. Taking only 'probable' result schemes into the MF"-tables they would become much shorter. There are suggested two conditions for the selection of the result schemes, given and compared by mme tables together with a mathematical foundation of the number of the selected schemes. Some tables and a theorem about success probabilities of the m l t schemes point out their changes under different conditions (number of tubes, number of dilutions, dilution ratio), and make i t possible to estimate success probabilities of result schemes not selected by the more restricted condition.