Methods for capture-recapture analysis when cases lack personal identifiers

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2041-2051

  Cadwell, Betsy L ^a   Smith, Philip J ^b   Baughman, Andrew L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Capture recapture; Matching algorithm; Percentile interval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERTUSSIS; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 21244483830     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2081     Document Type: Article

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