The effect of differential recruitment, non-response and non-recruitment on estimators for respondent-driven sampling

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 899-934

  Tomas, Amber ^a   Gile, Krista J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Non response; Respondent driven sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655205915     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-EJS630     Document Type: Article

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