Sampling to reduce respondent burden in personal network studies and its effect on estimates of structural measures

Field Methods

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-230

  Golinelli, Daniela ^a   Ryan, Gery ^a   Green Jr , Harold D ^a   Kennedy, David P ^a   Tucker, Joan S ^a   Wenzel, Suzanne L ^a,b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Personal network; Simulation; Structural measures; Variance and mean squared error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954510392     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X10370796     Document Type: Article

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