How do you estimate the prevalence of HIV among drug addicts? In a perfect (though somewhat Orwellian) world you'd have a giant list of all drug users, and you'd randomly select a subset of them to test for HIV. Alas, the world is messy, and we're left to less rigorous methods, for example... »
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Misleading Means: On Drugs and Discrimination
Friday, April 30th, 2010
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discrimination,
RDS,
variance
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Sharad Goel is a Senior Researcher
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