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Estimating the prevalence of male clients of prostitute women in Vancouver with a simple capture–recapture method

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  • John M. Roberts
  • Devon D. Brewer

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Summary. Capture–recapture techniques are widely used to estimate the size of difficult‐to‐count human populations. Applications often focus on the overlap between two or more samples, but another type of data that is encountered in human studies involves only the number of times that particular individuals were encountered in the study period. We present a method for estimating the population size in this situation. This method is simple and technically accessible and allows for entries and exits by individuals and for a difference between probabilities of initial and subsequent contacts. We apply the method to arrest data on male clients of prostitute women in Vancouver.

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  • John M. Roberts & Devon D. Brewer, 2006. "Estimating the prevalence of male clients of prostitute women in Vancouver with a simple capture–recapture method," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 169(4), pages 745-756, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:169:y:2006:i:4:p:745-756
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00416.x
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    2. Dankmar Böhning & Alberto Vidal-Diez & Rattana Lerdsuwansri & Chukiat Viwatwongkasem & Mark Arnold, 2013. "A Generalization of Chao's Estimator for Covariate Information," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 69(4), pages 1033-1042, December.
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