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How Should We Best Estimate the Mean Recency Duration for the BED Method?

BED estimates of HIV incidence from cross-sectional surveys are obtained by restricting, to fixed time T, the period over which incidence is estimated. The appropriate mean recency duration ([Image: see text]) then refers to the time where BED optical density (OD) is less than a pre-set cut-off C, g...

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Autores principales: Hargrove, John, Eastwood, Hayden, Mahiane, Guy, van Schalkwyk, Cari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23166743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049661