Estimating the prevalence of male clients of prostitute women in Vancouver with a simple capture-recapture method

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

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 745-756

  Roberts Jr , John M ^a   Brewer, Devon D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Interdisciplinary Scientific Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrests and rearrests; Deterrence; Hidden populations; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748795792     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00416.x     Document Type: Review

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