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A New General Biomarker-based Incidence Estimator
24 May 2012
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BACKGROUND: Estimating disease incidence from cross-sectional surveys, using biomarkers for "recent" infection, has attracted much interest. Despite widespread applications to HIV, there is currently no consensus on the correct handling of biomarker results classifying persons as "recently" infected long after the infections occurred. METHODS: We derive a general expression for a weighted average of recent...
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