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New Performance Metrics for Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Microbial Source Tracking Methods
Citation:
Wang, D., H. Green, O. Shanks, AND A. Boehm. New Performance Metrics for Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Microbial Source Tracking Methods. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1(1):20-25, (2014).
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
Binary sensitivity and specificity metrics are not adequate to describe the performance of quantitative microbial source tracking methods because the estimates depend on the amount of material tested and limit of detection. We introduce a new framework to compare the performance of quantitative fecal source identification methods.
Record Details:
Record Type:DOCUMENT( JOURNAL/ PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL)
Product Published Date:01/14/2014
Record Last Revised:08/25/2015
OMB Category:Other
Record ID:
308552