The sensitivity of respondent-driven sampling

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 191-216

  Lu, Xin ^a,b   Bengtsson, Linus ^a   Britton, Tom ^b   Camitz, Martin ^a   Kim, Beom Jun ^c   Thorson, Anna ^a   Liljeros, Fredrik ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Directed network; Hidden population; Network; Respondent driven sampling; Sampling; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855955571     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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