Enhanced Inference for Finite Population Sampling-Based Prevalence Estimation with Misclassification Errors.

Epidemiologic screening programs often make use of tests with small, but nonzero probabilities of misdiagnosis. In this article, we assume the target population is finite with a fixed number of true cases, and that we apply an imperfect test with known sensitivity and specificity to a sample of indi...

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Published in:	American Statistician Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 192 - 199
Main Authors:	Ge, Lin, Zhang, Yuzi, Waller, Lance A., Lyles, Robert H.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2024
Subjects:	Maximum likelihood statistics Inferential statistics Sampling errors Disease prevalence Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics) Confidence intervals Statistical sampling
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