Abstract
Web crawling, snowball sampling, and respondent-driven sampling (RDS) are three types of network sampling techniques used to contact individuals in hard-to-reach populations. This paper studies these procedures as a Markov process on the social network that is indexed by a tree. Each node in this tree corresponds to an observation and each edge in the tree corresponds to a referral. Indexing with a tree (instead of a chain) allows for the sampled units to refer multiple future units into the sample.
In survey sampling, the design effect characterizes the additional variance induced by a novel sampling strategy. If the design effect is some value
Citation
Karl Rohe. "A critical threshold for design effects in network sampling." Ann. Statist. 47 (1) 556 - 582, February 2019. https://doi.org/10.1214/18-AOS1700
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