Measurement error evaluation of self-reported drug use: A latent class analysis of the US national household survey on drug abuse

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-119

  Biemer, Paul P ^a   Wiesen, Christopher ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification error; Marijuana use; Non sampling error; Survey error; Test retest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036420779     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00612     Document Type: Review

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