Incomplete contingency tables with censored cells with application to estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Scotland

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1564-1579

  Overstall, Antony M ^a   King, Ruth ^a   Bird, Sheila M ^b,c   Hutchinson, Sharon J ^d,e   Hay, Gordon ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Censoring; Incomplete contingency table; Log linear models; People who inject drugs; Population size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DRUG ABUSE; HEPATITIS C; LOGLINEAR MODEL; METHADONE TREATMENT; MORTALITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; POPULATION SIZE; UNITED KINGDOM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84898056699     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6047     Document Type: Article

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