The global prevalence of dry eye disease: A Bayesian view.
Papas Eric B·Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists)
PURPOSE: To provide estimates for the prevalence of dry eye disease globally and in sub-groups defined by: diagnostic criterion, sex, geographic location and age, using a Bayesian approach. METHODS: Modelling prevalence as a Beta distribution, estimates were inferred from Bayesian posterior distributions obtained by c…