Diagnostics for respondent-driven sampling

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a widely used method for sampling from hard-to-reach human populations, especially populations at higher risk for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Data are collected through a peer referral process over social networks. RDS has...

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Published inJournal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Vol. 178; no. 1; pp. 241 - 269
Main Authors Gile, Krista J., Johnston, Lisa G., Salganik, Matthew J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2015
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Coupons
Data collection
Diagnostic software
Diagnostics
Diseases
Estimation bias
Estimators
Exploratory data analysis
Hard-to-reach populations
Health risk assessment
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Inference
Link tracing sampling
Non-ignorable design
Organizations
Population
Population estimates
Populations
Public health
Respiratory distress syndrome
Respondent-driven sampling
Risk
Sampling
Sampling bias
Sampling techniques
Social networks
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Survey sampling
HIV/AIDS
diagnostics
hard-to-reach populations
respondent-driven sampling
exploratory data analysis
non-ignorable design
survey sampling
social networks
link-tracing sampling
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Summary:Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a widely used method for sampling from hard-to-reach human populations, especially populations at higher risk for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Data are collected through a peer referral process over social networks. RDS has proven practical for data collection in many difficult settings and has been adopted by leading public health organizations around the world. Unfortunately, inference from RDS data requires many strong assumptions because the sampling design is partially beyond the control of the researcher and not fully observable. We introduce diagnostic tools for most of these assumptions and apply them in 12 high risk populations. These diagnostics empower researchers to understand their RDS data better and encourage future statistical research on RDS sampling and inference.
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'Supporting information: Diagnostics for respondent-driven sampling'.
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National Agricultural Statistics Service
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ISSN:0964-1998
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DOI:10.1111/rssa.12059