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Design of sample surveys to estimate the prevalence of rare diseases : three unbiased estimates / Z. W. Birnbaum, Monroe G. Sirken.

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Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource ([3], 8 pages)
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1965.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"October 1965."
"Three formulas, varying in the extent that they utilize all the information collected by a survey based on a stratified sample of medical sources, are presented to estimate the number of diagnosed cases of a rare disease in the population."
GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 8).
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (CDC, viewed June 16, 2020).
Subject:
Health surveys > United States.
Public health > United States > Mathematical models.
Rare diseases > United States.
Design of sample surveys to estimate the prevalence of rare diseases