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Fig. 4

From: Understanding the relationship between egg- and antigen-based diagnostics of Schistosoma mansoni infection pre- and post-treatment in Uganda

Fig. 4

Error in prevalence estimation based on simulated data. Mean and standard deviation across all simulated points. Error decreases as the number of repeated Kato-Katz measures increases but CCA assuming trace as positive (CCA+) has an overall smaller error in prevalence estimation. This suggests that multiple KK will improve precision, but not enough compared to CCA+, particularly at low levels of prevalence

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