BAYESIAN LATENT CLASS MODELS FOR IDENTIFYING CANINE VISCERAL LEISHMANIOSIS USING DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN THE ABSENCE OF A GOLD STANDARD.

BackgroundLike many infectious diseases, there is no practical gold standard for diagnosing clinical visceral leishmaniasis (VL).Latent class modeling has been proposed to estimate a latent gold standard for identifying disease.These proposed models for VL have leveraged information from diagnostic tests with dichotomous serological and PCR assays,

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