mobile technology is getting changed very fast in commensurate with other technological hyper changes. buyers’ expectation from a new cellular phone is also changing over time. producers, thereby, have to keep themselves abreast of changes in customer taste and preferences to attract, capture, grow, and retain both existing and potential customers. this study is set to measure factors affecting...

Snowball sampling, as a network research, has number of advantages in registering “hidden populations”, such as: people with rare diseases and unrecognized by the community, illegal immigrants, drug users, deviant sexual behavior, undeclared workers, alcoholics, gambling or computer addicts, unemployed jobseekers, domestic school violence, etc. The procedure is well known widely applied, are it...

This thesis discusses the methods used to assess the linguistic diversity of the internet. I critique the current literature on internet language diversity, arguing that existing methods-which aggregate textual data from many languages, to the exclusion of video and audio data-are unsuited to the study of minority languages. To address these shortcomings, I propose a snowball sampling approach ...

Many states have adopted alternative oral health care delivery systems that include expanded roles for dental hygienists. This qualitative study was designed to evaluate the impact of the Limited Access Permit (LAP) legislation in Oregon and to understand the relationship between dental hygienists and dentists within this delivery system. The snowball sampling technique was used to identify LAP...

Abstract A new strategy is introduced for estimating population size and networked characteristics. Sample selection based on a multi-wave snowball sampling design. generalized stochastic block model posited the population’s network graph. Inference Bayesian data augmentation procedure. Applications are provided to simulated populations an empirical population. The results demonstrate that stat...