Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 2 - Diagnostic Tests/142/en
For example: Say we have conducted a survey with a test whose sensitivity is 90% (0.9) and specificity is 95% (0.95) and we find a reactor rate (apparent prevalence) of 15% (0.15). By using the formula, we can estimate the true prevalence to be 11.8% (0.118).