Recruiting an Internet Panel Using Respondent-Driven Sampling
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Respondent Driven Sampling
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Official Statistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2001-7367
DOI: 10.2478/jos-2014-0018