3 papers
stat.ME2023
Utilizing a Capture-Recapture Strategy to Accelerate Infectious Disease Surveillance
Lin Ge, Yuzi Zhang, Lance A. Waller +1
Monitoring key elements of disease dynamics (e.g., prevalence, case counts) is of great importance in infectious disease prevention and control, as emphasized during the COVID-19 p…
stat.AP2023
On some pitfalls of the log-linear modeling framework for capture-recapture studies in disease surveillance
Yuzi Zhang, Lin Ge, Lance A. Waller +1
In epidemiological studies, the capture-recapture (CRC) method is a powerful tool that can be used to estimate the number of diseased cases or potentially disease prevalence based…
stat.ME2023
Enhanced Inference for Finite Population Sampling-Based Prevalence Estimation with Misclassification Errors
Lin Ge, Yuzi Zhang, Lance A. Waller +1
Epidemiologic screening programs often make use of tests with small, but non-zero probabilities of misdiagnosis. In this article, we assume the target population is finite with a f…