Experience With General Practitioner Lists as a Sampling Frame for a Survey of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician)Published 1 January 1989
Iain K. Crombie, William C. Smith, J. M. Irving, H.D. Tunstall-Pedoe
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The experience in the use of centrally held general practitioner lists as a sampling frame in a major survey of cardiovascular risk factors is reported and there was considerable variation in the extent of sampling frame problems, especially of foreign elements.
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I. K. Crombie, W. C. S. Smith, J. M. Irving, H. D. Tunstall-Pedoe, Experience With General Practitioner Lists as a Sampling Frame for a Survey of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 38, No. 1 (1989), pp. 25-31
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