A NEW ESTIMATOR FOR INFECTION RATES USING POOLS OF VARIABLE SIZE
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 114 (1) , 132-136
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113159
Abstract
A new estimator is proposed for the infection rate in a population of organisms when variably sized sample pools are analyzed. This new estimator has a closed form that can be easily evaluated and updated.Keywords
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