Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 661-665

  Verdery, Ashton M ^a   Merli, M Giovanna ^b   Moody, James ^c,d   Smith, Jeffrey A ^e   Fisher, Jacob C ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING ESTIMATOR; SAMPLING; SOCIAL NETWORK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; SEX WORKER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 84940037621     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000335     Document Type: Article

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