A Bayesian analysis of serial dilutions offers a worse positive bias than the MPN and proposes an inappropriate interval estimate

The recent article ‘Estimating bacterial density from tube dilution data by a Bayesian method', by Roussanov et al. (Food Microbiology, 1996 13, 1431–1437), inappropriately treats the likelihood function over a scalar (not logarithmic) axis as a Bayesian probability distribution over a universe...

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Published in:Food microbiology 1997-10, Vol.14 (5), p.515-517
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