An adaptive nonparametric method in benchmark analysis for bioassay and environmental studies
An adaptive nonparametric method in benchmark analysis for bioassay and environmental studies
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DOI:
10.1016/j.spl.2010.08.024
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发表时间:
2010-12-01
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0.8
通讯作者:
Lin, Lizhen
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作者:
Bhattacharya, Rabi;Lin, Lizhen
We present a novel nonparametric method for bioassay and benchmark analysis in risk assessment, which averages isotonic MLEs based on disjoint subgroups of dosages. The asymptotic theory for the methodology is derived, showing that the MISEs (mean integrated squared error) of the estimates of both the dose-response curve F and its inverse F(-1) achieve the optimal rate 0(N(-4/5)). Also, we compute the asymptotic distribution of the estimate (sigma) over tilde (p) of the effective dosage sigma(p) = F(-1)(p) which is shown to have an optimally small asymptotic variance. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.