Assessing COVID-19 Prevalence in Austria with Infection Surveys and Case Count Data as Auxiliary Information

• Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 119; no. 547; pp. 1722 - 1735
• Main Authors: Guerrier, Stéphane, Kuzmics, Christoph, Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Confidence intervals; COVID-19; Data analysis; Infections; Measurement; Medical materials; Medical tests; Polls & surveys; Weighting; Austria

Countries officially record the number of COVID-19 cases based on medical tests of a subset of the population. These case count data obviously suffer from participation bias, and for prevalence estimation, these data are typically discarded in favor of infection surveys, or possibly also completed w...