Statistical Properties of Parasite Density Estimators in Malaria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hammami, Imen ^a   Nuel, Grégory ^a   Garcia, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875020711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051987     Document Type: Article

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