Estimation of Disease Incidence in Fish Populations
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Vol. 40 (12) , 2194-2197
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f83-254
Abstract
A method is described to estimate the disease incidence in large populations of fish where the material analyzed is composed of a number of pooled individuals. A procedure for calculating a confidence interval estimate is presented, and the bias of the estimate discussed. The methods were developed for estimating disease incidence in hatchery populations of juvenile Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), but are applicable to any situation in which the sampling plan can be assumed to follow the binomial distribution.Keywords
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