Respondent-driven sampling : A new approach to the study of hidden populations

By Douglas D. Heckathorn. 1997

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Inferring networks of diffusion and influence (2010, methodology): “Since the optimization problem is NP-hard to solve exactly, we develop an efficient approximation algorithm that scales to large datasets and in practice gives provably near-optimal performance.”
Social network analysis: A methodological introduction (2008, methodology): “Variants of link-trace designs include snowball sampling (Goodman, 1961), random-walk sampling (Klovdahl, 1989), and respondent-driven sampling (Heckathorn, 1997, 2002), all of which use somewhat different procedures for selecting an initial 'seed' sample, contacting egos within each wave,…”
Review of sampling hard-to-reach and hidden populations for HIV surveillance. (2005, methodology): “RDS has several features that allow it to overcome some of the limitations inherent in the other methods described above.”
Respondent-Driven Sampling: An Assessment of Current Methodology (2009, methodology): “4 Comparison of the Classic and Current RDS Estimators Sections 2 and 4 focus on the current RDS estimator, proposed by Volz and Heckathorn (2008) (VH). This estimator is also more closely tied to previous work in survey sampling than the previous estimators. As noted in Section 2, most RDS analysis”
Enhancing the sample diversity of snowball samples: Recommendations from a research project on anti-dam movements in Southeast Asia (2018, unknown): “Researchers who employ snowball sampling frequently employ personal/professional contact seeds and cold call seeds to build their sample (e.g., [2,79,80] with a seed defined as the starting point of a sample [65]).”
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (2020, background): “Convenience sampling is controversial because it is very popular despite threatening generalizability (cf. Arnett 2008; Henrich et al. 2010).”
Sampling in Interview-Based Qualitative Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (2014, background): “Respondent-driven sampling is a form of snowball sampling that gives financial incentives for recruiting others into the study (Heckathorn 1997; Johnston & Sabin 2010; Wang et al. 2005).”
Tracing information flow on a global scale using Internet chain-letter data (2008, background): “It plays a fundamental role in settings that include the spread of technological innovations (1, 2), wordof-mouth effects in marketing (3–5), the spread of news and opinion (6–8), collective problem-solving (9, 10), and sampling methods for hidden populations (11, 12).”
The Development and Validation of a Qur’an-Based Instrument to Assess Islamic Religiosity: The Religiosity of Islam Scale (2007, methodology): “Hill (2005) established four criteria by which to judge the psychometric acceptability of an instrument that measures religious constructs: theoretical basis, sample representativeness/generalization, reliability, and validity (p.”
Quota Sampling as an Alternative to Probability Sampling? An Experimental Study (2014, background): “To overcome these difficulties some researchers have started to look for alternative ways of drawing a sample since the mid-1900s (Stephan and McCarthy 1958 ; Godambe 1966; Royall 1970; Holt and Smith 1979; Thompson and Seber 1996; Heckathorn 1997; Lavallee 2007).”
Invited Reflection (2016, background): “Two methods may be useful: respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and time-space sampling (TSS).”