Approaches to sampling gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men from geosocial-networking smartphone applications: A Methodological note

Social Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Goedel, William C ^a,b   Brooks, Forrest A ^a   Duncan, Dustin T ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geosocial networking smartphone applications; Men who have sex with men; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019000290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/socsci5040051     Document Type: Article

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