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 con...

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Autores principales: Lachowsky, Nathan John, Sorge, Justin Tyler, Raymond, Henry Fisher, Cui, Zishan, Sereda, Paul, Rich, Ashleigh, Roth, Eric A., Hogg, Robert S., Moore, David M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27852234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0258-4

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