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ArticleStatistics in medicine2013

Change-point models to estimate the limit of detection.

Ryan C May, Haitao Chu, Joseph G Ibrahim, Michael G Hudgens, Abigail C Lees, David M Margolis

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ryan C MayThe EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland 20850, U.S.A.
Haitao Chu
Joseph G Ibrahim
Michael G Hudgens
Abigail C Lees
David M Margolis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT)U01AI068641 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI NEATON, JAMES DENNIS · 2006 to 2010
$120.1M
Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
STATISTICAL ISSUES IN AIDS RESEARCHR37AI029168 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI JAMES P HUGHES · 1999 to 2026
$9.8M
STATISTICAL ISSUES IN AIDS RESEARCHR01AI029168 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HUGHES, JAMES P · 1989 to 2018
$5.3M
Biostatistics for Research in Genomics and CancerT32CA106209 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JOSEPH G IBRAHIM, Naim Ur Rashid · 2004 to 2026
$4.8M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA106209NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI050410NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI029168NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI029168NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI068641NIAID NIH HHS U01-AI068641PHS HHS P30A1050410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many biological and environmental studies, measured data is subject to a limit of detection. The limit of detection is generally defined as the lowest concentration of analyte that can be differentiated from a blank sample with some certainty. Data falling below the limit of detection is left censored, falling below a level that is easily quantified by a measuring device. A great deal of interest lies in estimating the limit of detection for a particular measurement device. In this paper, we propose a change-point model to estimate the limit of detection by using data from an experiment with known analyte concentrations. Estimation of the limit of detection proceeds by a two-stage maximum likelihood method. Extensions are considered that allow for censored measurements and data from multiple experiments. A simulation study is conducted demonstrating that in some settings the change-point model provides less biased estimates of the limit of detection than conventional methods. The proposed method is then applied to data from an HIV pilot study.

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Likelihood FunctionsLimit of DetectionModels, StatisticalComputer SimulationHIVHIV InfectionsHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralRNA, Viralchange pointlimit of detectionlinear calibration curvetwo-stage maximum likelihood

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PMID23784922
PMCPMC3858526
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