The game of contacts: Estimating the social visibility of groups

Social Networks

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-78

  Salganik, Matthew J ^a   Mello, Maeve B ^b   Abdo, Alexandre H ^c   Bertoni, Neilane ^b   Fazito, Dimitri ^d   Bastos, Francisco I ^b,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden populations; HIV AIDS disease surveillance; Information flow; Network sampling; Network scale up method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451475023     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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