Pooled testing for HIV prevalence estimation: Exploiting the dilution effect

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1447-1467

  Zenios, Stefanos A ^a   Wein, Lawrence M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN TISSUE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0032527702     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980715)17:13<1447::AID-SIM862>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Review

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