February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Many point estimates of the true treatment effect are based
on the sampling density.
Find the value of the treatment effect for which
the observed test statistic is
·the mean of its sampling distribution
·the median of its sampling distribution
·the mode of its sampling distribution
·
Maximum likelihood estimates correspond to finding the
value of the treatment effect for which the sampling density of
the observed data is maximized. (Need to consider sufficiency
of statistics.)