The selection from multiple data sources in epidemiological capture-recapture studies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 515-520

  Hay, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Confidence intervals; Drug misuse; Log linear models; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345876372     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00105     Document Type: Article

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