Recapture or precapture? Fallibility of standard capture-recapture methods in the presence of referrals between sources

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1383-1393

  Jones, Hayley E ^a   Hickman, Matthew ^a   Welton, Nicky J ^a   De Angelis, Daniela ^b,c   Harris, Ross J ^b   Ades, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bias; log linear models; model selection; parameter identifiability; prevalence estimation; problem drug use

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DRUG USER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING BIAS;

ARTICLE; CAPTURE RECAPTURE METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG ABUSE; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

BIAS; LOG-LINEAR MODELS; MODEL SELECTION; PARAMETER IDENTIFIABILITY; PREVALENCE ESTIMATION; PROBLEM DRUG USE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84900812290     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu056     Document Type: Article

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