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Table 1 Model specification for the analysis

From: A threshold-free approach with age-dependency for estimating malaria seroprevalence

Model

Equations

Age-dependency

Threshold

Parameters to estimate

M1

(1), (9), (10), (11), (7)

No

Yes

\(\delta\), \(\sigma _{S^-}^2\), \(\sigma _{S^+}^2\), \(\beta _0\), \({\tilde{\beta }}_{0}\), \(\lambda\)

M2

(3), (9), (10), (11), (7)

Yes

No

\(\delta\), \(\sigma _{S^-}^2\), \(\sigma _{S^+}^2\), \(\beta _{0}\), \(\beta _{1}\), \(\beta _{2}\), \({\tilde{\beta }}_{0}\), \({\tilde{\beta }}_{1}\), \(\lambda\)