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Record W4413077203 · doi:10.6000/1929-6029.2025.14.36

A Refined Population Mean Estimator Using Median and Skewness: Applications to Breast Cancer and Brain Tumor Data

2025· article· en· W4413077203 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Statistics in Medical Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicSurvey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEstimatorSkewnessStatisticsPopulationMathematicsSampling (signal processing)Simple random sampleComputer scienceMedicine

Abstract

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Estimators are essential to sampling theory because they allow researchers and statisticians to calculate estimates of population parameters from observed data. In every survey activity, the experimenter aims to use methods that will improve the precision of population parameter estimations throughout both the design and estimation phases. When auxiliary data is used in the estimating, design, or both processes, these estimated precisions can be attained. By linearly merging the central value of the data under consideration with the skewness coefficient provided by Karl Pearson, this study created a new, improved predictor for calculating the average of a population. Estimators are crucial to sampling theory because of their capacity to produce estimates of population parameters from observed data. In this work, a novel modified ratio-type estimator was constructed by linearly merging Karl-Pearson's coefficient of skewness with the median value. Simple random sampling (SRS) was the technique employed in this present study. We conduct a numerical analysis from the standpoint of real estate. Additionally, we do some real data analysis on two distinct cancers: the brain tumor dataset and the breast cancer dataset. The results of the simulation study, real data application in the medical field, and numerical investigation show that the suggested estimator achieves lower error when the median value and Karl Pearson's coefficient of skewness are combined. Furthermore, compared to the other estimators under consideration, the one proposed in this study achieves better precision.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.719
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.249
GPT teacher head0.578
Teacher spread0.329 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it