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Calculate estimated number of cases for a condition affecting children under 5 years old in a specified survey area

Source: R/01-sample_size.R
get_n_cases.Rd

Calculate estimated number of cases for a condition affecting children under 5 years old in a specified survey area

Usage

get_n_cases(N, u5, p)

Arguments

N

Population for all ages in the specified survey area

u5

Proportion (value from 0 to 1) of population that are aged 6-59 months

p

Prevalence of condition that is to be assessed

Value

A numeric value of the estimated number of cases in the specified survey area

Examples

## Calculate number of SAM cases in a population of 100000 persons of all
## ages with an under-5 population of 17% and a prevalence of 2%
get_n_cases(N = 100000, u5 = 0.17, p = 0.02)
#> [1] 340