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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 114, No. 1: 132-136
Copyright © 1981 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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A NEW ESTIMATOR FOR INFECTION RATES USING POOLS OF VARIABLE SIZE

CHAP T. LE1

1Biometry Division, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455

Address for reprints: Mayo Box 197, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

A new estimator is proposed for the infection rate in a population of organisms when variably sized sample pools are analyzed. This new estimator has a closed form that can be easily evaluated and updated.

biometry; epidemiologic methods; infection rates


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