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. 1994 Jul;84(7):1068–1069. doi: 10.2105/ajph.84.7.1068

Voluntary and involuntary capture-recapture samples--problems in the estimation of hidden and elusive populations.

R Neugebauer 1, J Wittes 1
PMCID: PMC1614765  PMID: 8017525

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