This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of illegal kidney sales in Kalai Upazila, Bangladesh, using the Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM), an ego-centric network survey …
The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a survey-based method for estimating the number of individuals in a hidden or hard-to-reach subgroup of a general population. In NSUM …
Having accurate and timely data on active COVID-19 cases is challenging, since it depends on the availability of an appropriate infrastructure to perform tests and aggregate their …
The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a cost-effective approach to estimating the size or prevalence of a group of people that is hard to reach through a standard survey. The basic …
Indirect surveys, in which respondents provide information about other people they know, have been proposed for scenarios where privacy is important or where the population to be …
I Laga, L Bao, X Niu - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Aggregated Relational Data (ARD), formed from “How many X's do you know?” questions, is a powerful tool for learning important network characteristics with incomplete …
L Jing, H Yu, Q Lu - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background The decline in the number of new HIV infections among adults has slowed down, gradually becoming the biggest obstacle to achieving the 2030 target of ending the …
Indirect surveys, in which respondents provide information about other people they know, have been proposed for estimating (nowcasting) the size of a hidden population where …
Abstract The Network Scale-up Methods (NSUM) are methods to estimate unknown populations based on indirect surveys in which the participants provide information about …