Bastos, Leonardo S; Paiva, Natalia S; Bastos, Francisco I; Villela, Daniel AM; (2018) Fast approaches for Bayesian estimation of size of hard-to-reach populations using Network Scale-up. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04678
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Abstract
The Network scale-up method is commonly used to overcome difficulties in estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations. The method uses indirect information based on social network of each participant taken from the general population, but in some applications a fast computational approach would be highly recommended. We propose a Gibbs sampling method and a Monte Carlo approach to sample from the random degree model. We applied the abovementioned analytical strategies to previous data on heavy drug users from Curitiba, Brazil.
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Faculty and Department | Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (-2023) |
Elements ID | 133924 |
Official URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04678 |
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