Table 1. Summary of notation.

Event	Description
	Malaria detection through microscopy
	Sampled by the government surveillance system
	Infection status
	Symptom status
Data
	Total number of malaria cases detected
	Total number of individuals examined for malaria
	Population size
Parameters
	Microscopy sensitivity given symptoms
	Microscopy sensitivity given lack of symptoms
	Probability of symptoms given infected
	Probability of symptoms given not infected
	Probability of symptoms given sampled
	Annual mean of infection incidence
	Extra-binomial variability parameter
Latent states
	Total number of infected individuals