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Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance

BACKGROUND: Inverse probability weighting (IPW) methods can be used to estimate the total number of cases from the sample collected through sentinel surveillance. Central to these methods are the inverse weights which can be derived in several ways and, in this case, represent the probability that l...

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Autores principales: Braeye, Toon, Quoilin, Sophie, Hens, Niel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6651902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7279-y