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A tutorial in estimating the prevalence of disease in humans and animals in the absence of a gold standard diagnostic

Epidemiological methods for estimating disease prevalence in humans and other animals in the absence of a gold standard diagnostic test are well established. Despite this, reporting apparent prevalence is still standard practice in public health studies and disease control programmes, even though ap...

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Autores principales: Lewis, Fraser I, Torgerson, Paul R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23270542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-9-9