Research Article
Impact of Using Double Positive Samples in Deming Regression
Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa ,
1
Frank Kofi Owusu ,
1
and Samuel Okyere
2
1
Department of Statistical Sciences, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi, Ghana
2
Department of Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Correspondence should be addressed to Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa; saadarkwa@gmail.com
Received 14 July 2022; Revised 20 July 2022; Accepted 22 July 2022; Published 12 August 2022
Academic Editor: Niansheng Tang
Copyright © 2022 Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
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In the method comparison approach, two measurement errors are observed. e classical regression approach (linear regression)
method cannot be used for the analysis because the method may yield biased and inefficient estimates. In view of that, the Deming
regression is preferred over the classical regression. e focus of this work is to assess the impact of censored data on the
traditional regression, which deletes the censored observations compared to an adapted version of the Deming regression that
takes into account the censored data. e study was done based on simulation studies with NLMIXED being used as a tool to
analyse the data. Eight different simulation studies were run in this study. Each of the simulation is made up of 100 datasets with
300 observations. Simulation studies suggest that the traditional Deming regression which deletes censored observations gives
biased estimates and a low coverage, whereas the adapted Deming regression that takes censoring into account gives estimates that
are close to the true value making them unbiased and gives a high coverage. When the analytical error ratio is misspecified, the
estimates are as well not reliable and biased.
1. Introduction
A biological assay (Bioassay) is a scientific experiment
where a substance of interest is introduced to a living
organism to assess the effects of the substance introduced.
In the area of drug development, a quantitative bioassay is
when the effects of the substance introduced are quantified.
e quantitative bioassay is mainly applied in drug de-
velopment and environmental pollution assessment [1]. In
order for a firm to receive approval from the Food and
Drugs Administration (FDA) for a new medical mea-
surement device or method, the firm must show that the
new method target value is accurate as the old standard
method (gold standard method) [2].
In an example, suppose this pharmaceutical company
has two methods X and Y that could be used to measure the
count of CD4+ in the blood of HIV patients. If there are
some measurement errors associated with one method,
which may be due to calibration or the way the scientist
handled the device while taking the measurement, the
classical regression approach or traditional regression
approach is normally employed. In this approach, the least-
squares (LS) method is usually used to find “good” esti-
mators of the regression parameters, intercept (β
0
) and
slope (β
1
) [3]. In the LS method, it is assumed that the
measurements of one of the methods are without random
errors, i.e., in the most familiar setting, X is measured
without error and Y is a linear function of the X plus some
random measurement error, which is conventionally as-
sumed and modeled by a normal distribution [4].
However, in this same pharmaceutical company, two
variables X and Y are to be fitted to a straight line to the data
and the two variables have errors in them. We would be
willing to have more clarification on the dataset, how it was
collected and why there are errors in both X and Y. e
scientist would be surprised with the kind of questions these
statisticians would ask him because to him as a scientist,
errors in both variables may seem to be quite trivial since all
he may need is to see the straight line plotted to the data.
Suppose, for example, the company has got in their
possession a new method Y that said to give a better reading
of the CD4+ count in the blood of the HIV patients. e
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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2022, Article ID 3984857, 8 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3984857