Efficiency of two-phase designs for prevalence estimation

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1072-1078

  McNamee, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Double sampling; Epidemiology; Prevalence estimation; Statistical efficiency; Survey design; Two phase designs; Two stage designs

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0346724472     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg230     Document Type: Article

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