Enumerating the Hidden Homeless: Strategies to Estimate the Homeless Gone Missing From a Point-in-Time Count

Enumerating the Hidden Homeless: Strategies to Estimate the Homeless Gone Missing From a Point-in-Time Count

To receive federal homeless funds, communities are required to produce statistically reliable, unduplicated counts or estimates of homeless persons in sheltered and unsheltered locations during a one-night period (within the last ten days of January) called a point-in-time (PIT) count. In Los Angele...

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Main Authors: Agans Robert P., Jefferson Malcolm T., Bowling James M., Zeng Donglin, Yang Jenny, Silverbush Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
Subjects:
homeless count
hidden homeless
unsheltered homeless population
horvitz-thompson estimator
multiplicity-based estimator
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0014

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https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0014

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