Selection and quantification of infection endpoints for trials of vaccines against intestinal helminths

Vaccines against human helminths are being developed but the choice of optimal parasitological endpoints and effect measures to assess their efficacy has received little attention. Assuming negative binomial distributions for the parasite counts, we rank the statistical power of three measures of ef...

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Main Authors: Alexander, Neal, Cundill, Bonnie, Sabatelli, Lorenzo, Bethony, Jeffrey M., Diemert, David, Hotez, Peter, Smith, Peter G., Rodrigues, Laura C., Brooker, Simon
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093614/