Don't spin the pen: Two alternative methods for second-stage sampling in urban cluster surveys

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Grais, Rebecca F ^a   Rose, Angela M C ^a   Guthmann, Jean Paul ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENINGITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NIGER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; TRAINING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34250788124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-4-8     Document Type: Article

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