Inverse probability weighting in sexually transmitted infection/human immunodeficiency virus prevention research: Methods for evaluating social and community interventions

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 512-518

  Lippman, Sheri A ^a,b   Shade, Starley B ^b   Hubbard, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BRAZIL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 77955174834     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181d73feb     Document Type: Article

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