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    Area of Science:

    • Statistics
    • Biostatistics
    • Reliability Engineering

    Background:

    • The functional gamma = Pr(X < Y) - Pr(Y < X) is crucial in clinical trials, genetics, and reliability.
    • Estimating gamma is challenging when data for independent variables X and Y are in discretized (categorical) form.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze and compare various estimation approaches for gamma with discretized data.
    • To derive asymptotic formulas for estimator variances and discuss bootstrap methods for variance estimation.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of multiple estimators for the gamma statistic.
    • Derivation of asymptotic variance formulas.
    • Application and evaluation of bootstrap methods for variance estimation.

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    Main Results:

    • The optimal estimator for gamma is contingent upon the gamma value, data distribution, and sparseness.
    • Bootstrap methods offer a robust approach to estimating variance.

    Conclusions:

    • The choice of estimator significantly impacts gamma estimation accuracy for categorical data.
    • Bootstrap variance estimation is reliable across various scenarios.