Given the Increasing Bias in Random Digit Dial Sampling, Could Respondent-Driven Sampling be a Practical Alternative?

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 272-279

  Lee, Robin ^a   Ranaldi, Jennifer ^a   Cummings, Michelle ^a   Crucetti, James B ^b   Stratton, Howard ^a   McNutt, Louise Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^b Albany County Health Department   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; Epidemiologic Methods; Feasibility Studies; Health Surveys; Humans; Sampling Studies; Telephone; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDON DIGIT DIAL; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING; SAMPLING; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TELEPHONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952077432     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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