Monday, August 30, 2010

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS)

How do you do analysis or quantitative studies on hidden populations, or those populations where sampling frame cannot be constructed?  Say Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs), or Men Having Sex with Men (Yes Martha, in most countries, MSMs are still hidden!).  


You can do RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING (RDS).


and then....with the data from an RDS study, how do you then analyze the data?  What are the complications of using data from RDS studies?  


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