respondent-driven sampling

A Simulation-Based Framework for Assessing the Feasibility of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Estimating Characteristics in Populations of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Older Adults

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for sampling from a target population by leveraging social connections. RDS is invaluable to the study of hard-to-reach populations. However, RDS is costly and can be infeasible. RDS is infeasible when …

Methods for Inference from Respondent-Driven Sampling Data

Respondent-driven sampling is a commonly used method for sampling from hard-to-reach human populations connected by an underlying social network of relations. Beginning with a convenience sample, participants pass coupons to invite their contacts to …

Evaluating Variance Estimators for Respondent‐Driven Sampling

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a network-based method for sampling hard-to-reach populations that is widely used by public health agencies and researchers worldwide. Estimation of population characteristics from RDS data is challenging due to …

Removing Phase Transitions from Gibbs Measures

Gibbs measures are a fundamental class of distributions for the analysis of high dimensional data. Phase transitions, which are also known as degeneracy in the network science literature, are an emergent property of these models that well describe …

If You Are Not Counted, You Don’t Count: Estimating the Number of African-American Men Who Have Sex with Men in San Francisco Using a Novel Bayesian Approach

African-American men who have sex with men (AA MSM) have been disproportionately infected with and affected by HIV and other STIs in San Francisco and the USA. The true scope and scale of the HIV epidemic in this population has not been quantified, …

Estimating the size of hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling data: Case examples from Morocco

Background: Respondent-driven sampling is used worldwide to estimate the population prevalence of characteristics, such as HiV/aiDS and associated risk factors in hard-to-reach populations. estimating the total size of these populations is of great …

On the Concept of Snowball Sampling

A phenomenon in the sociology of science is that multidisciplinary fields tend to produce a plethora of inconsistent terminology. Often the meaning of a term evolves over time, or different terms are used for the same concept. More confusing is the …