A random digit search (RDS) method for sampling of blogs and other user-generated content

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-339

  Zhu, Jonathan J H ^a   Mo, Qian ^b   Wang, Fang ^b   Lu, Heng ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

random digit search; random walks; web crawling; web sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960618536     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439310382512     Document Type: Article

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