Health indicators: Eliminating bias from convenience sampling estimators

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 560-568

  Hedt, Bethany L ^a   Pagano, Marcello ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Convenience samples; HIV; Prevalence; Sentinel sites; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; HYBRID PREVALENCE ESTIMATOR; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 79851499885     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3920     Document Type: Article

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