RDS: Stata module for respondent driven sampling

Matthias Schonlau ()
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Matthias Schonlau: University of Waterloo

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: Respondent-driven sampling is a technique to sample networked populations. It shares some similarities with snowball sampling but also requires estimates of network size (degree) and information about who recruited whom. Importantly, Markov chain theory makes it possible to compute sampling probabilities. This program implements Heckathorn's original estimator and the Volz-Heckathorn estimator.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10.1
Keywords: sampling; respondent-driven sampling; network; networked populations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08-06
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install rds". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/rds.ado program code (text/plain)
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/rds_network.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/rds_toy_example.do sample do-file (text/plain)

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