Optimizing laboratory-based surveillance networks for monitoring multi-genotype or multi-serotype infections
Fig 5
Surveillance performance of the optimal design and the seven archetypal designs evaluated with data from 2009–2014 and 2015 over 1000 realizations of the disease system model.
Violin plots and boxplots for different designs (shades of color) show the distribution of mean absolute error (MAE) in estimating serotype-specific incidence rates of (A) all cases and (B) only severe cases using 2009–2014 data; and (C) all cases and (D) only severe cases using 2015 data, which was not used in the optimization procedure. The horizontal dashed lines show the median MAEs of the optimal designs.