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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.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…
stat.ME2022
A Design and Analytic Strategy for Monitoring Disease Positivity and Case Characteristics in Accessible Closed Populations
Robert H. Lyles, Yuzi Zhang, Lin Ge +1
We propose a monitoring strategy for efficient and robust estimation of disease prevalence and case numbers within closed and enumerated populations such as schools, workplaces, or…