An approximate likelihood estimator for the prevalence of infections in vectors using pools of varying sizes

DOI10.1002/BIMJ.201500185MaRDI QIDQ2829479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Diana Dorgam, J. D. Santos

Publication date 28 October 2016

Published in Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201500185

zbMATH Keywords

pooled samplesapproximate likelihoodprevalence of infections in arthropods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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• Confidence intervals for the difference of two proportions estimated from pooled samples

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