title: Inspecting and monitoring on a restricted budget--where best to look?
abstract: Generally, only limited resources are available for quarantine inspection, compliance verification and disease surveillance. How best to allocate a fixed amount of resources depends on how we define 'best'. This paper considers a number of definitions that cover a range of likely operational activities and derives sampling and testing strategies that take advantage of any variation in risk within the population of interest to increase their efficiency.
authors.affiliation: Operational Science Program, Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, GPO Box 858, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. rob.cannon@daff.gov.au
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cannon
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000818:Animals; D018803:Models, Economic; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011790:Quarantine / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*