Age-specific multi-state drug initiation models: Insights from considering heterogeneity

Bulletin on Narcotics

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 105-118

  Almeder, C ^a   Caulkins, J P ^b   Feichtinger, G ^a   Tragler, G ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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