Comparison of Bayesian and frequentist methods for prevalence estimation under misclassification

• Main Authors: Matthias Flor (Author), Michael Weiß (Author), Thomas Selhorst (Author), Christine Müller-Graf (Author), Matthias Greiner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Various methods exist for statistical inference about a prevalence that consider misclassifications due to an imperfect diagnostic test. However, traditional methods are known to suffer from truncation of the prevalence estimate and the confidence intervals constructed around the...