Schonlau, Matthias; Liebau, Elisabeth - 2010
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e ….g. drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similar to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit … chains. Unlike in snowball sampling, it is crucial to obtain estimates of respondents’ personal network size (i.e., number of …