Estimating population size and duplication rates when records cannot be linked

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3403-3417

  Laska, Eugene M ^a,b   Meisner, Morris ^a,b   Wanderling, Joseph ^a   Siegel, Carole ^a,b  

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

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth dates; Capture recapture; Duplication rates; Mental health; Population size; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOSTATISTICS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMETRY; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; VETERANS;

EID: 0242332344     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1640     Document Type: Article

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