A novel Bayesian geospatial method for estimating tuberculosis incidence reveals many missed TB cases in Ethiopia
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A novel Bayesian geospatial method for estimating tuberculosis incidence reveals many missed TB cases in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND Reported tuberculosis (TB) incidence globally continues to be heavily influenced by expert opinion of case detection rates and ecological estimates of disease duration. Both approaches are recognised as having substantial variability and inaccuracy, leading to uncertainty in true TB incidence and other such derived statistics. METHODS We developed Bayesian binomial mixture geospati...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2759-0