Various global health initiatives are currently advocating the elimination of schistosomiasis within next decade. Schistosomiasis is a highly debilitating tropical infectious disease with severe burden morbidity and thus operational research accurately evaluating diagnostics that quantify epidemic status for guiding effective strategies essential. Latent class models (LCMs) have been generally ...

Finite mixture models, which are a type of latent variable model, express the overall distribution of one or more variables as a mixture of a finite number of component distributions. In direct applications, one assumes that the overall population heterogeneity with respect to a set of manifest variables results from the existence of two or more distinct homogeneous subgroups, or latent classes...