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标题：Estimating the Size of the Methamphetamine-Using Population in New York City Using Network Sampling Techniques
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作者：Kirk Dombrowski ; Bilal Khan ; Travis Wendel 等
期刊名称：Advances in Applied Sociology
印刷版ISSN：2165-4328
电子版ISSN：2165-4336
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：245-252
DOI：10.4236/aasoci.2012.24032
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：As part of a recent study of the dynamics of the retail market for methamphetamine use in New York City, we used network sampling methods to estimate the size of the total networked population. This process involved sampling from respondents’ list of co-use contacts, which in turn became the basis for capture-recapture estimation. Recapture sampling was based on links to other respondents derived from demographic and “telefunken” matching procedures–the latter being an anonymized version of telephone number matching. This paper describes the matching process used to discover the links between the solicited contacts and project respondents, the capture-recapture calculation, the estimation of “false matches”, and the development of confidence intervals for the final population estimates. A final population of 12,229 was estimated, with a range of 8,235 - 23,750. The techniques described here have the special virtue of deriving an estimate for a hidden population while retaining respondent anonymity and the anonymity of network alters, but likely require larger sample size than the 132 persons interviewed to attain acceptable confidence levels for the estimate.
关键词：Population Estimation; Network Methods; Methamphetamine; Anonymous Sampling