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05/07/2023
The Role of Scaling and Estimating the Degree Ratio in the Network Scale-up Method
The Network Scale-up Method (NSUM) uses social networks and answers to "...
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03/13/2023
Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) Estimators
The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a cost-effective approach to estim...
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05/17/2022
Perfect Spectral Clustering with Discrete Covariates
Among community detection methods, spectral clustering enjoys two desira...
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09/21/2021
A Correlated Network Scale-up Model: Finding the Connection Between Subpopulations
Aggregated relational data (ARD), formed from "How many X's do you know?...
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05/26/2021
Consistency of Privacy-Preserving Spectral Clustering under the Stochastic Block Model
The stochastic block model (SBM) – a network model featuring community s...
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12/09/2020
A Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to combining multiple data sources: A case study in size estimation
To combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic effectively, certain key populations pla...
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11/25/2020
Thirty Years of The Network Scale up Method
Estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations is an important problem...
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09/04/2020
Evaluating the relative contribution of data sources in a Bayesian analysis with the application of estimating the size of hard to reach populations
When using multiple data sources in an analysis, it is important to unde...
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08/27/2020
What Can We Learn from the Travelers Data in Detecting Disease Outbreaks – A Case Study of the COVID-19 Epidemic
Background: Travel is a potent force in the emergence of disease. We dis...
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12/15/2019
Modeling the marked presence-only data: a case study of estimating the female sex worker size in Malawi
Continued fine-scale mapping of HIV/AIDS populations is needed to meet g...
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05/31/2018
Near-Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with An Application to Poster Competitions
Judging scholarly posters creates a challenge to assign the judges effic...
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03/18/2018
A Dynamic Additive and Multiplicative Effects Model with Application to the United Nations Voting Behaviors
In this paper, we introduce a statistical regression model for discrete-...
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11/13/2017