Diagnostics for respondent-driven sampling

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

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 241-269

  Gile, Krista J ^a   Johnston, Lisa G ^b,c   Salganik, Matthew J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Diagnostics; Exploratory data analysis; Hard to reach populations; Human immunodeficiency virus; Link tracing sampling; Non ignorable design; Respondent driven sampling; Social networks; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916222195     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12059     Document Type: Article

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