Bayesian estimation of pneumonia etiology: Epidemiologic considerations and applications to the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study

In pneumonia, specimens are rarely obtained directly from the infection site, the lung, so the pathogen causing infection is determined indirectly from multiple tests on peripheral clinical specimens, which may have imperfect and uncertain sensitivity and specificity, so inference about the cause is...

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Main Authors: Knoll, M, Fu, W, Shi, Q, Prosperi, C, Wu, Z, Hammitt, LL, Feikin, DR, Baggett, HC, Howie, SRC, Scott, JAG, Murdoch, DR, Madhi, SA, Thea, DM, Brooks, WA, Kotloff, KL, Li, M, Park, DE, Lin, W, Levine, OS, O'Brien, KL, Zeger, SL
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017