Open AccessEstimating incidence rates with misclassified disease status: a likelihood-based approach, with application to hepatitis C virus
Author(s) -
Fatma M. Shebl,
Samer S. ElKamary,
Michelle Shardell,
Patricia Langenberg,
Laila Shehata Dorgham,
James H. Maguire,
Laurence S. Magder
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.02.017
Subject(s) - confidence interval , statistics , incidence (geometry) , medicine , cohort , nominal level , hepatitis c virus , hepatitis c , mathematics , demography , immunology , virus , geometry , sociology
In epidemiologic research, incidence is often estimated from data arising from an imperfect diagnostic test performed at unequally spaced intervals over time.
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