Population size estimation of men who have sex with men through the network scale-up method in Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ezoe, Satoshi ^a,b   Morooka, Takeo ^c   Noda, Tatsuya ^d   Sabin, Miriam Lewis ^a   Koike, Soichi ^e  

^a UNAIDS   (Switzerland)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; JAPAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NETWORK SCALE UP METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE ESTIMATION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; AGED; HOMOSEXUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856399001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031184     Document Type: Article

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