Method | Meaning | Formula |
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VERR | Vaccine-induced proportion reduction in probability of infection during follow-up | \({\mathrm{VE}}_{\mathrm{RR}}= 1-\mathrm{RR}= 1-\frac{{\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{v}}}{{\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{c}}}\) |
VEHR | Vaccine-induced proportion reduction in hazard of first infection during follow-up | \({\mathrm{VE}}_{\mathrm{HR}}=\) 1 – HR |
VEmolFOI | Vaccine-induced proportion reduction in molecular force of infection (molFOI) | VEmolFOI = \(1- \frac{\mathrm{molFOI\, of\, vaccinees}}{\mathrm{molFOI\, of\, controls}}\) |
VEC | Vaccine-induced proportion reduction in mean number of clones per exposure that develop into a blood stage infection | \({\mathrm{VE}}_{C}= 1-\frac{{\overline{x} }_{v}}{{\overline{x} }_{c}}\mathrm{HR}\) |