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Peter M Aronow1, Forrest W Crawford2.
Abstract
We detail nonparametric identification results for respondent-driven sampling when sampling probabilities are assumed to be functions of network degree known to scale. We show that the conditions for consistency of the Volz-Heckathorn estimator are weaker than previously assumed.Entities:
Keywords: Horvitz-Thompson estimator; network degree; respondent-driven sampling
Year: 2015 PMID: 26327739 PMCID: PMC4552244 DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2015.07.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stat Probab Lett ISSN: 0167-7152 Impact factor: 0.870