Optimisation of the T-square sampling method to estimate population sizes

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bostoen, Kristof ^a   Chalabi, Zaid ^a   Grais, Rebecca F ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b EPICENTRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T SQUARE SAMPLING METHOD;

EID: 34250380564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-4-7     Document Type: Article

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