Sampling unknown universe: Problems of researching mass casualty incidents (a history of ECRU's field research)

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1812-1823

  Scanlon, Joseph ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Scanlon Associates Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field research techniques; Mass casualty incidents; Sampling an unknown universe

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTAMINATION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; COMMUNICATION; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 33947411821     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2800     Document Type: Review

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