Network Sampling with Memory: A Proposal for More Efficient Sampling from Social Networks

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 206-256

  Mouw, Ted ^a   Verdery, Ashton M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

graph theory; hidden populations; random walks; respondent driven sampling; sampling; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993791807     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081175012461248     Document Type: Article

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