About the Authors
- Casey Olives
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Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Joseph J. Valadez
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* E-mail: J.Valadez@liverpool.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of International Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Simon J. Brooker
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Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
- Marcello Pagano
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CO JJV MP. Performed the experiments: CO MP. Analyzed the data: CO MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CO SJB JJV MP. Wrote the paper: CO SJB JJV MP. Responsible for the primary statistical development of methods and implementation: CO. Provided technical support and advisement of statistical development: MP. Provided data and expert advisement for application to schistosomiasis: SJB. Provided context and expert advisement for LQAS design and implementation: JJV.