… We define a serial seroepidemiology study design as one in which N cross-sectional serum
samples are collected every M months from the general population, or a pool of blood donors…

… of infection from seroprevalence data, various statistical methods … the overall seroprevalence
estimate, the sample size needed … could make use of serial seroprevalence surveys (ie, …

… In the statistical analysis presented here, we consider a … We refer to this study design as
a serial seroepidemiology (SSE… and are not always statistically identifiable, especially when …

… statistical approaches for sample size calculations, most often assuming independence
between individuals, do not capture the complex nature of infectious disease epidemiology. This …

… different sampling intervals, improving sample size estimation… This 4-fold rise is equivalent
to a 2-dilution change in a serial … To eliminate potential statistical identifiability issues (15) and …

… -off value is the identification of recent symptomatic infections … To account for the large sample
size in our model selection … an atypical seroepidemiological design as the samples were …

… Despite high levels of seroprevalence, we documented the unfolding of a new transmission
… Sample size calculation for estimating key epidemiological parameters using serological …

… of various seroepidemiological inference methods. We compared estimates for key statistics
such … with different sample sizes, spatial distribution of samples, and sampling frequencies, …

… Each age-seroprevalence curve on the … sample sizes and more frequent sampling, partly
due to a deterministic model of antibody acquisition and antibody waning. When sample sizes …

… the accuracy and power of new statistical methods. … sample sizes, spatial distribution of
samples, and sampling … biology and epidemiology which determine an observed sample of …