Assessment of Random Recruitment Assumption in Respondent-Driven Sampling in Egocentric Network Data* | Zendy

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Assessment of Random Recruitment Assumption in Respondent-Driven Sampling in Egocentric Network Data*

Author(s) -

Hongjie Liu,

Jianhua Li,

Toan Ha,

Jian Li

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

social networking

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2169-3323

pISSN - 2169-3285

DOI - 10.4236/sn.2012.12002

Subject(s) - respondent , population , sample (material) , demography , statistics , confidence interval , marital status , sampling (signal processing) , psychology , mathematics , econometrics , computer science , chemistry , filter (signal processing) , chromatography , sociology , political science , law , computer vision

One of the key assumptions in respondent-driven sampling (RDS) analysis, called "random selection assumption," is that respondents randomly recruit their peers from their personal networks. The objective of this study was to verify this assumption in the empirical data of egocentric networks.

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