Linked Ego Networks: Improving estimate reliability and validity with respondent-driven sampling

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 669-685

  Lu, Xin ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Differential recruitment; Ego networks; HIV; Reporting error; Respondent driven sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887347020     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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