Estimating the Prevalence of Illegal Drug Use

DOI10.1080/08898480.2013.836329MaRDI QIDQ4628545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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