Bound estimator of HIV prevalence: Application to Malawi

• Main Authors: FUJII, Tomoki, LEUNG, Denis H. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Econometrics; Health Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1601; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2600/viewcontent/17_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To find lower and upper bounds of HIV prevalence in Malawi under mild and intuitive assumptions to assess the importance of the refusal issue in the estimation of HIV prevalence. Methods: We derive bounds based on the following two key assumptions: (i) Among those who have never taken an HIV test be...