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To Weight or Not to Weight in Time-location Sampling: Why Not Do Both?

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Acknowledgments

This project was supported in part by a Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PS08-80202, #UC62/CCU223595. The authors would like to thank Drs. Colin Shepard, Monica Sweeney, Jay Varma, and James Hadler, of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for their review and comments on the paper.

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Xia, Q., Torian, L.V. To Weight or Not to Weight in Time-location Sampling: Why Not Do Both?. AIDS Behav 17, 3120–3123 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-013-0528-7

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