Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance

Table 2 Overview of the simulation scenarios

Detection scenario	Participating labs	Number of cases	Probability of detection
Detection scenario	Participating labs	Number of cases	Attractiveness of the labs:	Spatial heterogeneity
Random	Labs are randomly selected. The number of labs varies from 20 to 100 (20, 40, 60, 80, 100)	100–1000 (100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000)	Uniform	Uniform
Distance			Uniform	Distance decay
Attractiveness			Multinomial	Uniform
Attractiveness and distance			Multinomial	Distance decay

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