Estimation of fish and wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests on pooled samples with varying pool sizes

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-280

  Williams, Christopher J ^a   Moffitt, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Fish and wildlife diseases; Prevalence; Risk management; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOASSAY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 77954762433     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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