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SUBMITTER: Robineau O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7021777 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robineau Olivier O Gomes Marcelo F C MFC Kendall Carl C Kerr Ligia L Périssé André A Boëlle Pierre-Yves PY
Scientific reports 20200214 1
Respondent Driven Sampling study (RDS) is a population sampling method developed to study hard-to-reach populations. A sample is obtained by chain-referral recruitment in a network of contacts within the population of interest. Such self-selected samples are not representative of the target population and require weighing observations to reduce estimation bias. Recently, the Network Model-Assisted (NMA) method was described to compute the required weights. The NMA method relies on modeling the u ...[more]