A quantitative study of the accuracy of college students' HIV risk estimates

Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Pinkerton, Steven D ^a   Wagner Raphael, Lynne I ^a   Craun, Catherine A ^b   Abramson, Paul R ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0007627508     PISSN: 10712089     EISSN: 17519861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9861.2000.tb00061.x     Document Type: Article

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