Affiliation:
1. Department of Statistics, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway New Jersey USA
2. Janssen Pharmaceutical Research and Development Spring House Pennsylvania USA
3. Janssen Pharmaceutical Research and Development Beerse Belgium
Abstract
AbstractEstimation of microorganism concentration in samples (bacterial cells or viral particles) has been a focal point in biomedical experiments for more than a century. Serial dilution of the samples is often used to estimate the target concentrations in immunology, virology, and pharmaceutical industry. A new methodology, called joint likelihood estimation (JLE), is proposed to estimate particles such as the number of microorganisms in a sample from counts obtained by serially diluting the sample. It models count data from the entire single dilution series rather than using only specific dilutions. The theoretical framework is based on the binomial and the Poisson distributions and is consistent with the actual experimental process. The estimator of the target concentration is obtained by MLE with derived joint likelihood functions of the observed counts including right‐censored values. Simulations demonstrated that the new JLE method significantly increases precision and accuracy of the estimate compared to the existing methods. It can be applied to a variety of studies with similar experimental designs, especially when the number of particles in the neat sample is very large.
Subject
Management Science and Operations Research,Ocean Engineering,Modeling and Simulation
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