Population inferences from targeted sampling with uncertain epidemiologic information

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 25-33

  Williams, Michael S ^a   Ebel, Eric D ^a   Wells, Scott J ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease detection; Model based inference; Prevalence; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 63249097399     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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