Estimating numbers of unsheltered homeless people through plant-capture and postcount survey methods

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1438-1442

  Hopper, Kim ^a,b   Shinn, Marybeth ^c   Laska, Eugene ^a,d   Meisner, Morris ^a,d   Wanderling, Joseph ^a  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; INTERVIEW; PLANT; UNITED STATES;

CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK CITY; PROBABILITY THEORY; PUBLIC HOUSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48749091350     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.083600     Document Type: Article

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