Measuring sexual partner networks for transmission of sexually transmitted diseases

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

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-238

  Ghani, A C ^a,c   Garnett, G P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Non ignorable missing data; Non random samples; Sexual networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040757679     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00101     Document Type: Article

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