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We drew up 2 X 2 tables for each age group.

We wanted to estimate the number in the bottom right corner of the table.

How would you do that?

If we assume that the ratio:

“Notified by NHSCR? - No” / “Notified by NHSCR? - Yes”

is the same for cases that are and are not notified by other sources, then the number of unknown cases can be estimated from:

? = 86 * (11 / 215) = 4.4

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