Inference about the Number of Resident Bacterial Strains when Sampling from Plate Colonies

Autor:	A. C. Trajstman
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Statistics and Probability Strain (chemistry) Sample (material) Zoology Sampling (statistics) General Medicine Biology biology.organism_classification Exponential growth Sample size determination Statistics Bacteriology Statistics Probability and Uncertainty Bacteria Statistical hypothesis testing
Zdroj:	Biometrical Journal. 40:533-542
ISSN:	1521-4036 0323-3847
DOI:	10.1002/(sici)1521-4036(199809)40:5<533::aid-bimj533>3.0.co;2-f
Popis:	This paper deals with making inferences about the number of resident bacterial strains in mice gut based on the number of strains of bacteria found in a random sample of colonies derived from plated faecal material. It is shown that for what seems to be a natural way to test the hypothesis that there is only one resident bacterial strain against the alternative that there is more than one resident strain the probability of a Type II error may be unacceptably large. It is also shown that given the sample contains only one bacterial strain the probability that the animal has only one resident strain converges to unity at a geometric rate as the sample size increases.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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