|tPRiors |: a tool for prior elicitation and obtaining posterior distributions of true disease prevalence

|tPRiors |: a tool for prior elicitation and obtaining posterior distributions of true disease prevalence

Abstract Background Tests have false positive or false negative results, which, if not properly accounted for, may provide misleading apparent prevalence estimates based on the observed rate of positive tests and not the true disease prevalence estimates. Methods to estimate the true prevalence of d...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Pateras, Polychronis Kostoulas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Prevalence estimation
Prior elicitation
Bayesian
Pooled samples
Statistical modelling
JAGS
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01557-1

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01557-1

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