Estimating the Prevalence of Illegal Drug Use

DOI10.1080/08898480.2013.836329zbMATH Open1409.91206OpenAlexW1982087788MaRDI QIDQ4628545FDOQ4628545

Authors: Orla Dempsey, Catherine Comiskey 

Publication date: 14 March 2019

Published in: Mathematical Population Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08898480.2013.836329

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zbMATH Keywords

gamma distributionintegral equationlatency periodsubstance useprevalence estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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