Publication: Sample sizes for identifying the key types of container occupied by dengue-vector pupae: The use of entropy in analyses of compositional data
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2006-04-01
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00034983
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Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Vol.100, No.SUPPL. 1 (2006)
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N. Alexander, A. E. Lenhart, C. M E Romero-Vivas, P. Barbazan, A. C. Morrison, R. Barrera, J. I. Arredondo-Jiménez, D. A. Focks Sample sizes for identifying the key types of container occupied by dengue-vector pupae: The use of entropy in analyses of compositional data. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Vol.100, No.SUPPL. 1 (2006). doi:10.1179/136485906X105471 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/23350
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Sample sizes for identifying the key types of container occupied by dengue-vector pupae: The use of entropy in analyses of compositional data
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A method has been developed for estimating the sample sizes needed to identify categories that comprise a large proportion of a compositional data-set. The method is to be used in the design of surveys of mosquito pupae, for identifying the key container types from which the majority of adult dengue vectors emerge. Although a finite-population correction was devised for estimating the mean of a negative binomial distribution, other complications of parametric approaches make them unlikely to yield methods simple enough to be practically applicable. The Shannon-Wiener index was therefore investigated as a more useful alternative, at the cost of theoretical generalizability, in an approach based on resampling methods in conjunction with the use of entropy. This index can be used to summarize the degree to which pupae are either concentrated in a few container types, or dispersed among many. An empirical relationship between the index and the repeatability of surveys of differing sample sizes was observed. A step-wise rule, based on the entropy of the cumulative data, was devised for determining the sample size, in terms of the number of houses positive for pupae, at which a pupal survey might reasonably be stopped. © 2006 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.