Respondent-Driven Sampling – Testing Assumptions: Sampling with Replacement

Classical Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) estimators are based on a Markov Process model in which sampling occurs with replacement. Given that respondents generally cannot be interviewed more than once, this assumption is counterfactual. We join recent work by Gile and Handcock in exploring the imp...

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Main Authors: Barash Vladimir D., Cameron Christopher J., Spiller Michael W., Heckathorn Douglas D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jos-2016-0002