Combining link-tracing sampling and cluster sampling to estimate totals and means of hidden human populations

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 603-631

  Félix Medina, Martín H ^a   Monjardin, Pedro E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Design based approach; Finite population; Hard to access population; Horvitz thompson estimator; Model based approach; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651424466     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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