Bayes-LQAS classifying the prevalence of global acute malnutrition.docVIP

Olives and Pagano Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2010, 7 :3 /content/7/1/3 EMERGING THEMES IN EPIDEMIOLOGY ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE Open Access Bayes-LQAS: classifying the prevalence of global Analytic perspective acute malnutrition Casey Olives* and Marcello Pagano Abstract Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) applications in health have generally relied on frequentist interpretations for statistical validity. Yet health professionals often seek statements about the probability distribution of unknown parameters to answer questions of interest. The frequentist paradigm does not pretend