The effect of clustering on lot quality assurance sampling: A probabilistic model to calculate sample sizes for quality assessments

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hedt Gauthier, Bethany L ^a   Mitsunaga, Tisha ^b   Hund, Lauren ^c,d   Olives, Casey ^e   Pagano, Marcello ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster LQAS; Community health workers; Lot quality assurance sampling; Program evaluation; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 84886129386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-10-11     Document Type: Article

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