Estimating population size when duplicates are present

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1635-1646

  Laska, Eugene M ^a,b   Meisner, Morris ^a,b   Wanderling, Joseph A ^a   Kushner, H B ^a  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROGRAM; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0029768904     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960815)15:15<1635::AID-SIM337>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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