Assessing respondent-driven sampling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 6743-6747

  Goel, Sharad ^a   Salganik, Matthew J ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Snowball sampling; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 77951135055     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000261107     Document Type: Article

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