Data Quality in HIV/AIDS Web-Based Surveys: Handling Invalid and Suspicious Data

Field Methods

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-291

  Bauermeister, Jose A ^a   Pingel, Emily ^a   Zimmerman, Marc ^a   Couper, Mick ^a   Carballo Diéguez, Alex ^b   Strecher, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; data quality; HIV AIDS; Internet methodology; web survey design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864946464     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12443097     Document Type: Review

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