Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by gpderetta on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:07PM
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Aldo if you expect the true positves to be a small percentage (which should still be the case in most countries), false positives will dominate in a ranom sampling. Apparently false positives are high for unsymptomatic cases. Of course if you can estimate the false positive rate well enough, the random sampling might still give useful statistics.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co...
by terramex on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:18PM
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As far as I know lab performed PCR tests are assumed to have 0% false positives and about 29% false negatives.
Antibodies tests have about 10% false-positive rate but to the best of my knowledge countries in Europe widely use PCR tests.