Demonstrating disease freedom - Combining confidence levels

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 227-249

  Cannon, R M ^a  

^a Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assurance program; Confidence levels; Disease freedom; Sampling; Voluntary accreditation program

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037154016     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(01)00262-8     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Two-stage sampling in surveys to substantiate freedom from disease
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3. Herd-level interpretation of test results for epidemiologic studies of animal diseases
4. Conditional dependence between tests affects the diagnosis and surveillance of animal diseases
5. Use of a Markov-chain Monte Carlo model to evaluate the time value of historic testing information in animal populations