Ascertainment Corrected Rates: Applications of Capture-Recapture Methods

摘要: Accurate rates, though fundamental to epidemiology, are often very difficult obtain. Incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates have traditionally been established through either passive reporting surveillance systems, active or by a combination of the two methods. Typically, when researchers employ these approaches they do not formally evaluate correct for degree underascertainment. Undercount cases is potent determinant which we cannot continue ignore. We believe all should be adjusted underascertainment in order achieve truer picture risk factors disease. Here, present procedure ascertainment based upon well capture-recapture