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Activity Number: 407
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract #312720
Title: An Investigation of the Independence Assumption in Capture-Recapture Methods in Epidemiology
Author(s): Patricia Humphrey*+
Companies: Georgia Southern University
Keywords: capture-recaptrue ; Chapman estimator ; Independence
Abstract:

We quantify the effects of departures from independence between two data sources on the chapman estimator in epidemiological applications of disease prevalence. We probive a classification system in the form of perturbations that represent departures from independencs for paids of lists with a suspected positive or negative association.


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