Athreya, S and Babu, GR and Iyer, A and Mohammed Minhaas, BS and Rathod, N and Shriram, S and Sundaresan, R and Vaidhiyan, NK and Yasodharan, S (2021) COVID-19: Optimal Design of Serosurveys for Disease Burden Estimation. In: Sankhya B .
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Abstract
We provide a methodology by which an epidemiologist may arrive at an optimal design for a survey whose goal is to estimate the disease burden in a population. For serosurveys with a given budget of C rupees, a specified set of tests with costs, sensitivities, and specificities, we show the existence of optimal designs in four different contexts, including the well known c-optimal design. Usefulness of the results are illustrated via numerical examples. Our results are applicable to a wide range of epidemiological surveys under the assumptions that the estimate�s Fisher-information matrix satisfies a uniform positive definite criterion. © 2021, Indian Statistical Institute.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Sankhya B |
Publisher: | Springer |
Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Springer |
Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Infectious Disease Research |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2021 06:16 |
Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2021 06:16 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70450 |
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