--- title: "Modeling directly from antibody levels" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Modeling directly from antibody levels} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) ``` ```{r setup, output=FALSE} library(serosv) ``` ## Mixture model **Proposed model** Two-component mixture model for test result $Z$ with $Z_j (j = \{I, S\})$ being the latent mixing component having density $f_j(z_j|\theta_j)$ and with $\pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a)$ being the age-dependent mixing probability can be represented as $$ f(z|z_I, z_S,a) = (1-\pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a))f_S(z_S|\theta_S)+\pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a)f_I(z_I|\theta_I) $$ The mean $E(Z|a)$ thus equals $$ \mu(a) = (1-\pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a))\mu_S+\pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a)\mu_I$$ From which the true prevalence can be calculated by $$ \pi_{\text{TRUE}}(a) = \frac{\mu(a) - \mu_S}{\mu_I - \mu_S} $$ Force of infection can then be calculated by $$ \lambda_{TRUE} = \frac{\mu'(a)}{\mu_I - \mu(a)} $$ **Fitting data** To fit the mixture data, use `mixture_model` function ```{r} df <- vzv_be_2001_2003[vzv_be_2001_2003$age < 40.5,] df <- df[order(df$age),] data <- df$VZVmIUml model <- mixture_model(antibody_level = data) model$info ``` ```{r} plot(model) ``` sero-prevalence and FOI can then be esimated using function `estimate_from_mixture` ```{r} est_mixture <- estimate_from_mixture(df$age, data, mixture_model = model, threshold_status = df$seropositive, sp=83, monotonize = FALSE) plot(est_mixture) ```