Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostic test accuracy using Bayesian latent class analysis in the presence of conditional dependence between the diagnostic tests used in a community-based tuberculosis screening study

• Alfred Kipyegon Keter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aketer@ext.itg.be

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Centre for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-4838

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• Lutgarde Lynen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Alastair Van Heerden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Emily Wong,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Klaus Reither,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Els Goetghebeur,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Bart K. M. Jacobs

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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