Volume 8, Number 7—July 2002
Research
Automatic Electronic Laboratory-Based Reporting of Notifiable Infectious Diseases
Figure 2

Figure 2. Capture-recapture methodology (11). C=number of reports received through both electronic laboratory-based reporting and conventional paper-based reporting. n1=number of reports received through conventional paper-based reporting system only. n2=number of reports received through electronic laboratory-based reporting only. X= estimated number of reports missed by both electronic laboratory-based reporting and conventional paper-based reporting system. R=number of reports received through conventional paper-based reporting system. S=number of reports received through electronic laboratory-based reporting. N=estimated total number of reports available by the Chandra Sekar-Deming capture-recapture calculation.
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