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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Prevalence estimation"”.
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Efficient Prevalence Estimation for Emerging and Seasonal Diseases Under Limited Resources
Estimating the prevalence rate of a disease is crucial for controlling its spread, and for planning of healthcare services. Due to limited testing budgets and resources, prevalence estimation typically entails pooled, or group, testing where specimens (e.g., blood, urine, tissue swabs) from a …
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The Impact of Sample Size, Prevalence, Estimation Method and Other Factors When Estimating Multilevel Logistic Models
… account other aspects of their models including estimation method, size of variance components, or number of predictors. This Monte Carlo study examined the performance of subject-specific binary outcome multilevel models under varying methods of estimation, level-1 and level-2 sample size, …
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Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: evaluating accessibility, utilisation, coverage and selected health impacts
… and syringes - including multiple indirect prevalence estimation, and prospective follow-up of MSIC referrals. Shooting gallery users expressed demand for and willingness to use the MSIC. Injecting episodes previously occurring in shooting galleries appear to have been transferred to the …
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Surveillance Enhancing Strategies for the Mitigation of Emerging Cattle Parasite Theileria orientalis Ikeda
… high incidence of asymptomatic infection makes prevalence difficult to anticipate with enough confidence to optimize pooling approaches, which can become costly with high misestimation of prevalence. This work demonstrated that the addition of a subsampling test to estimate prevalence within a …
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR IN BLEEDING AND THROMBOSIS
… to type 3 VWD patients. In Chapter 6, the prevalence of alloantibodies against VWF in the 3WINTERS-IPS cohort has been assessed. Because of the lack of a gold-standard, we chose to carry out an indirect ELISA assay able to detect all anti-VWF antibodies and a Bethesda-based method using …