Author ' s response to reviews Title : Measuring underreporting and under - ascertainment in infectious disease
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Cheryl L Gibbons ([email protected]) Marie-Josée J Mangen ([email protected]) Dietrich Plass ([email protected]) Arie H Havelaar ([email protected]) Russell John Brooke ([email protected]) Piotr Kramarz ([email protected]) Karen L Peterson ([email protected]) Anke L Stuurman ([email protected]) Alessandro Cassini ([email protected]) Eric M Fèvre ([email protected]) Mirjam EE Kretzschmar ([email protected])
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Measuring underreporting and under-ascertainment in infectious disease datasets: a comparison of methods
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