Pertussis
Mixture model analyzes diagnostic cut-off for pertussis antibody levels
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 29th, 2006
Researchers in the United States note, "Previous studies of pertussis (whooping cough) that have derived diagnostic cut-off points for pertussis antibody levels have assumed a single distribution for antibody levels and have used small sample sizes."
A.L. Baughman and colleagues of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention wrote, "In a recent study of 5409 serum samples from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 111), a finite mixture model was developed to examine the distribution of immunoglobulin G...
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