Novel Approaches to Snowball / Respondent-Driven Sampling That Circumvent the Critical Threshold

Novel Approaches to Snowball / Respondent-Driven Sampling That Circumvent the Critical Threshold

Neyman Seminar
Feb 22, 2017, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Karl Rohe, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Web crawling, snowball sampling, and respondent-driven sampling (RDS) are three types of network driven sampling techniques that are popular when it is difficult to contact individuals in the population of interest. This talk will show that if participants refer too many other participants, then under the standard Markov model in the RDS literature, the standard approaches do not provide "square...