Confidence Intervals for Prevalence Estimates from Complex Surveys with Imperfect Assays
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DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2205.13494arXiv2205.13494MaRDI QIDQ76811FDOQ76811
Authors: Damon Bayer, Barry Graubard, Michael P. Fay 
Publication date: 26 May 2022
Abstract: We present several related methods for creating confidence intervals to assess disease prevalence in variety of survey sampling settings. These include simple random samples with imperfect tests, weighted sampling with perfect tests, and weighted sampling with imperfect tests, with the first two settings considered special cases of the third. Our methods use survey results and measurements of test sensitivity and specificity to construct melded confidence intervals. We demonstrate that our methods appear to guarantee coverage in simulated settings, while competing methods are shown to achieve much lower than nominal coverage. We apply our method to a seroprevalence survey of SARS-CoV-2 in undiagnosed adults in the United States between May and July 2020.
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