HIV incidence declines in a rural South African population: a G-imputation approach for inference

Abstract Background Ad hoc assumptions about the unobserved infection event, which is known only to occur between the latest-negative and earliest-positive test dates, can lead to biased HIV incidence rate estimates. Using a G-imputation approach, we infer the infection dates from covariate data to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alain Vandormael, Diego Cuadros, Adrian Dobra, Till Bärnighausen, Frank Tanser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09193-4