Table 3.
Estimated posterior values of the misclassification between infection categories in humans.
| Estimated infection status | Observed classification | Posterior probability of being in the observed infection class given the estimated infection status in % (95% Bayesian credible interval) |
| Not infected | Not infected | 99.3 (98.8 – 99.8) |
| Not infected | Lightly infected | 0.6 (0.1 – 1.1) |
| Not infected | At least moderately infected | 0.1 (0.0 – 0.2) |
| Lightly infected | Not infected | 57.9 (52.2 – 64.1) |
| Lightly infected | Lightly infected | 36.6 (31.8 – 41.1) |
| Lightly infected | At least moderately infected | 5.5 (3.1 – 7.9) |
| At least moderately infected | Not infected | 12.3 (5.1 – 20.7) |
| At least moderately infected | Lightly infected | 26.5 (17.5 – 35.9) |
| At least moderately infected | At least moderately infected | 61.2 (48.3 – 73.6) |