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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Medical Diagnostics

Background:

  • Disease prevalence studies are crucial for public health.
  • Screening tests are cost-effective but prone to misclassification.
  • Gold-standard tests offer accuracy but are expensive and time-consuming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate statistical test methods for disease prevalence using double-sampling data.
  • To compare the performance of asymptotic and approximate unconditional methods for small and large sample sizes.
  • To identify optimal test statistics for disease prevalence estimation.

Main Methods:

  • Derivation of four novel test statistics for disease prevalence hypothesis testing.
  • Implementation of tests using asymptotic methods for large samples.
  • Application of approximate unconditional methods for small samples.
  • Simulation studies to assess empirical type I error rates and power.

Main Results:

  • The approximate unconditional method demonstrates superior performance in type I error rate and statistical power, particularly for small to moderate sample sizes.
  • Score and Wald tests, utilizing variance estimates under the null hypothesis, showed better performance compared to other tested statistics.
  • The proposed methods were illustrated using a real-world disease prevalence example.

Conclusions:

  • Double-sampling provides a practical compromise between cost-effective screening and accurate gold-standard testing.
  • The approximate unconditional method is recommended for disease prevalence studies with limited sample sizes.
  • The score and Wald tests are robust choices for disease prevalence estimation in double-sampling scenarios.