Table 2 Mean sample size collected over 10,000 resampling bouts from 1,000 simulated data sets with uniformly distributed HPV positivity, and over 10,000 resampling bouts from 1,000 data sets with a triangular distribution of HPV positivity
Distribution of HPV positivity in data | True prevalence | Sample size collected to classify proportion positive for HPV type | |
|---|---|---|---|
Mean | St. dev. | ||
Low | 40.76 | 5.73 | |
Uniform | Moderate | 48.27 | 4.51 |
High | 21.29 | 3.46 | |
Low | 43.37 | 4.83 | |
Mode = 0.05 | Moderate | 48.91 | 4.22 |
High | 22.51 | 4.54 | |