Quantity Versus Quality: A Survey Experiment to Improve the Network Scale-up Method
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Quantity Versus Quality: A Survey Experiment to Improve the Network Scale-up Method.
The network scale-up method is a promising technique that uses sampled social network data to estimate the sizes of epidemiologically important hidden populations, such as sex workers and people who inject illicit drugs. Although previous scale-up research has focused exclusively on networks of acquaintances, we show that the type of personal network about which survey respondents are asked to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv287