Department of Statistics Seminar
North Carolina State University

presents

Dr. Axel Munk

Ruhr University Bochum

"Bioequivalence tests, christmas trees and the iteration of a peculiar nonlinear operator in the upper complex halfplane"

ABSTRACT

The average bioequivalence problem is to assess the similarity instead of a difference of two formulations of a drug. We discuss the construction of unbiased tests and give some partial solutions. These solutions contradict some common sense criteria concerning the shape of the critical region of any bioequivalence test. We show that unbiasedness necessarily leads to such a contradiction. Finally, some practical applications are discussed.

Friday, March 10, 2000

3:35 - 4:35 pm

206 Cox Hall

Refreshments will be served on the second floor of Dabney Hall (left of Room 222) at 3:00 pm.