Community mapping and respondent-driven sampling of gay and bisexual men's communities in Vancouver, Canada
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Does size really matter? A sensitivity analysis of number of seeds in a respondent-driven sampling study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada
BACKGROUND Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly used peer chain-recruitment method to sample "hard-to-reach" populations for whom there are no reliable sampling frames. Implementation success of RDS varies; one potential negative factor being the number of seeds used. METHODS We conducted a sensitivity analysis on estimates produced using data from an RDS study of gay, bisexual...
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عنوان ژورنال: Culture, Health & Sexuality
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1369-1058,1464-5351
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.881551