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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Public Health Surveillance

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  • Serial principled sampling is standard for disease monitoring but can be resource-intensive.
  • Existing surveillance methods may lack precision or require large sample sizes.
  • Integrating data from non-representative sources can enhance estimates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a hybrid statistical approach for disease surveillance.
  • To improve the precision of case count and prevalence estimates.
  • To reduce sample size requirements in disease monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing capture-recapture methodology alongside principled sampling in closed populations.
  • Proposing weighted averaging of estimates from sampling and capture-recapture.
  • Introducing a novel single capture-recapture estimator.
  • Developing Dirichlet-multinomial-based credible intervals for hybrid estimates.

Main Results:

  • The hybrid approach, particularly the novel estimator, offers improved precision over single methods.
  • Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness in acute infectious disease and annual surveillance scenarios.
  • Careful implementation allows a small sample to justify capture-recapture estimates.

Conclusions:

  • A combined sampling and capture-recapture strategy enhances disease surveillance accuracy.
  • The proposed novel estimator provides a unified and preferable alternative for case count estimation.
  • This methodology offers a resource-efficient way to improve disease monitoring precision.