A two-sample changepoint model is proposed to investigate the difference between two treatments or devices. Under our semiparametric approach, no assumptions are made about the underlying distributions of the measurements from the two treatments or devices, but a parametric link is assumed...

In some assays, a diluted suspension of infected cells is plated onto multiple wells. In each well the number of genome copies of virus, "Y", is recorded, but interest focuses on the number of infected cells, "X", and the number of genome copies in the infected cells, "W"₁,…,"W"_"X". The...

type="main" xml:id="rssc12051-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>In recent decades there has been an increase in the reported incidence of clinical pertussis in many countries. Estimation of the true circulation of the bacterium Bordetella pertussis is most reliably made on the basis of studies that measure...</p>