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Analysis of institutional authors

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January 26, 2025
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Estimating odds and log odds with guaranteed accuracy

Publicated to:Statistical Papers. 66 (1): 26- - 2025-02-01 66(1), DOI: 10.1007/s00362-024-01639-w

Authors: Mendo, L

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Informat Proc & Telecommun Ctr, Ave Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Two sequential estimators are proposed for the odds p/(1-p)\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$p/(1-p)$$\end{document} and log odds log(p/(1-p))\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\log (p/(1-p))$$\end{document} respectively, using independent Bernoulli random variables with parameter p as inputs. The estimators are unbiased, and guarantee that the variance of the estimation error divided by the true value of the odds, or the variance of the estimation error of the log odds, are less than a target value for any p is an element of(0,1)\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$p \in (0,1)$$\end{document}. The estimators are close to optimal in the sense of Wolfowitz's bound.

Keywords

Binomial proportionsConfidence-intervalsEfficiencEfficiencyEstimationLog oddsMean-square errorOddsRatioVarianc

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Statistical Papers due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 74/168, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Statistics & Probability. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Statistics and Probability.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-11:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (MENDO TOMAS, LUIS).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been MENDO TOMAS, LUIS.