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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by gpderetta on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:07PM (#22580580)
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.
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by terramex on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:18PM (#22580630)
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.