If You Are Not Counted, You Don’t Count: Estimating the Number of African-American Men Who Have Sex with Men in San Francisco Using a Novel Bayesian Approach

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1052-1064

  Wesson, Paul ^a   Handcock, Mark S ^b   McFarland, Willi ^c   Raymond, H Fisher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; HIV AIDS; Men who have sex with men; Population size estimation; Respondent driven sampling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLING STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949530562     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-015-9981-0     Document Type: Article

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