This paper concerns the construction of confidence intervals in standard seroprevalence surveys. In particular, we discuss methods for constructing proportion individuals a population infected with disease using sample antibody test results and measurements test’s false positive negative rates. We begin by documenting erratic behavior coverage probabilities Wald percentile bootstrap when applie...

A set of N data elements (xI +•.• + X~)/N and variance of the th The r moment of the data elements elements is used to estimate E(xr ). th r x1' •.•• xN has r moment E(x)= th r 2r 2 r r moment Var(x ) = E(x )-E (x ). in an arbitrary subset of k Over all the choices of the sample, the mean error is zero and the mean squared error N-k r k(N-I) Var(x). A little-known theorem by Marlow shows that t...