Quality control relies heavily on the use of formal assessment metrics. In this paper, for the context of veterinary epidemiology, we review the main proposals, precision, repeatability, reproducibility, and intermediate precision, in agreement with ISO (international Organization for...

Based on sero-prevalence data of rubella, mumps in the UK and varicella in Belgium, we show how the force of infection, the age-specific rate at which susceptible individuals contract infection, can be estimated using generalized linear mixed models (McCulloch & Searle, 2001). Modelling the...

A weighted bootstrap version is defined for U-quantiles. Our main result shows that the (conditional) distribution of the weighted bootstrapped U-quantile provides a strongly consistent estimator for the unknown distribution for the U-quantile under consideration. For the proof we rely on a rank...