Respondent-driven sampling bias induced by community structure and response rates in social networks

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

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 99-118

  Rocha, Luis E C ^a,b   Thorson, Anna E ^a   Lambiotte, Renaud ^b   Liljeros, Fredrik ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Network sampling; Public health; Respondent driven sampling bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008462174     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12180     Document Type: Article

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