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Empirical Bayes estimation in sampling inspection. (English) Zbl 0571.62089

This paper considers an empirical Bayes approach to estimating the number of defectives in a hypergeometric distribution. It involves application of an empirical Bayes identity which has proved useful in providing simple Bayes estimates for various other models. Data on the reliability of coding the answers to questions from a household survey illustrate how an empirical Bayes estimate can be computed without knowledge of the prior distribution of the number of defectives.

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62P30 Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts
62F15 Bayesian inference
62C12 Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures
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