Bayesian estimation of pneumonia etiology: Epidemiologic considerations and applications to the pneumonia etiology research for child health study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages S213-S227

  Knoll, Maria Deloria ^a   Fu, Wei ^a,b   Shi, Qiyuan ^a   Prosperi, Christine ^a   Wu, Zhenke ^b,c   Hammitt, Laura L ^a,d   Feikin, Daniel R ^a,e   Baggett, Henry C ^f,g   Howie, Stephen R C ^h,i,j   Scott, J Anthony G ^d,h   Murdoch, David R ^k,l   Madhi, Shabir A ^m,n   Thea, Donald M ^o   Brooks, W Abdullah ^b,p   Kotloff, Karen L ^b   Li, Mengying ^a,b   Park, Daniel E ^a,q   Lin, Wenyi ^b   Levine, Orin S ^a,r   O'Brien, Katherine L ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^b   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^l CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^m Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^o BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^p INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^q GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

Bayes theorem; Epidemiologic methods; Etiologic estimations; Pneumonia; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; BUBBLE PLOT; CHILD HEALTH; GOLD STANDARD; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCH INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85031308216     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix144     Document Type: Article

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