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Recapture or Precapture? Fallibility of Standard Capture-Recapture Methods in the Presence of Referrals Between Sources

Capture-recapture methods, largely developed in ecology, are now commonly used in epidemiology to adjust for incomplete registries and to estimate the size of difficult-to-reach populations such as problem drug users. Overlapping lists of individuals in the target population, taken from administrati...

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Autores principales: Jones, Hayley E., Hickman, Matthew, Welton, Nicky J., De Angelis, Daniela, Harris, Ross J., Ades, A. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4036210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwu056