Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance
Abstract 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 probabilit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Public Health |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-7279-y |