Sentence examples for as a function of the prevalence from inspiring English sources

We characterised the diminishing value of the parasite detection test as a function of the prevalence of infection.

We used Bayes' theorem to assess the performance of each test in predicting weaning outcome as a function of the prevalence of weaning success or failure in the prospective validation-set [ 14].

From cases and controls we estimated cancer risk as a function of the prevalence of congenital malformation in offspring by means of logistic regression, taking maternal age at birth and sex of child into consideration.

PAR describes the impact of a risk factor on population risk as a function of the prevalence of the exposure and the relative risk of disease (Levin and Bertell 1978).

Thus, we get the mses from the variance for the individualed estimator Eq. (2), which is unbiased, and Then, the asymptotic ratio (as m → ∞) is We plot this asymptotic mse ratio, as a function of the prevalence p, for c = 4, and for three different values for the sensitivities, sens4 and sens1 (see Figure 2).

The first method proposed by Gladen and Rogan is based on a direct relationship that expresses the adjusted value of the prevalence as a function of the crude prevalence, and the sensitivity and specificity of the algorithm (equation 1).

In contrast, the attribution method used in this study estimates the disability prevalence by cause as a function of the disease prevalence and the disease-specific disability rates.

Hence, after rearrangement, R' may be defined as a function of the equilibrium prevalence as follows: R ' = 1 1 − (1 + γ / υ + γ / λ ) p *.

Since kappa is a function of prevalence, the prevalence of each condition as determined for both the hospital discharge data and the re-abstracted chart data is also presented in Additional file 1, Additional Table S4 [ 27].

This parameter can be expressed as a function of the relative risk of death and the prevalence of hypoglycaemia (aetiological fraction=v (RR−1)/[v (RR−1)+1], where v is the prevalence of hypoglycaemia and RR is relative risk).

In Figure 5, we show the dependence of the MRSA prevalence as a function of the total number of patient days at the unit.