Implementation of Web-Based Respondent Driven Sampling among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Sweden.

Respondent driven sampling (RDS) was designed to study 'hidden' populations, for which there are no available sampling frame. RDS has been shown to recruit far into social networks of the study population and achieve unbiased estimates when certain assumptions are fulfilled. Web-based resp...

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Main Authors: Susanne Strömdahl, Xin Lu, Linus Bengtsson, Fredrik Liljeros, Anna Thorson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591333?pdf=render