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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Respondent Driven Sampling"”.
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Statistical Methods for Studies Using Respondent Driven Sampling with Applications to Urban Indigenous Health
… from higher rates of cardiovascular disease. Respondent driven sampling (RDS) allows the health of urban Indigenous people to be studied using information about their connectedness. However, statistical methods for data arising from RDS studies are still being developed. The objective of this …
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Depression and HIV risk among female sex workers in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa: Results from a respondent-driven sampling study
… Particular attention is placed on the use of respondent-driven sampling as a probabilistic method to estimate population proportion for hidden populations. The primary outcome, depression, and how it is measured through the Patient Health Questionnaire 9, is discussed in detail. The objective …
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Modeling and projection of respondent driven network samples
… is not always available. Thus, different sampling methods are often required when the population data is inaccessible. Less time has been dedicated to studying the accuracy of these sampling methods to produce a representative sample. As such, the aim of this report is to identify the …
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Self-Reported Racism, Transphobia, Their Intersection and Impact on Past-Year HIV Related Sexual Risk Behaviour
… community-based research study that used respondent-driven sampling to access 433 trans Ontarians, between May 2009 and May 2010. RDSAT 6.0 was used to produce descriptive statistics and SAS 9.2 was used for regression analyses. Results: Transphobia was commonly perceived as 97.8% (C.I. = …
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Documenting dreams: undocumented students in Washington State
… utilized includes the IRB approved snowball sampling/ respondent-driven sampling used to approach hard-to-reach populations. A total of 10 one-on-one interviews with undocumented students at Eastern Washington University were conducted and individually analyzed for meta-themes about their …
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Examining the association between discrimination and risky social networks among illicit drug users
… injectors ≤ 3 years) recruited through respondent driven sampling and targeted street outreach in ethnographically mapped high drug activity NYC neighborhoods. We also combined START data with 2000 US Census data to examine whether neighborhood structural factors (e.g., poverty, …
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The economic behaviour of poly-drug users in the Western Cape: an analysis of pathways, prices, location and gender
… Survey participants were sampled using a respondent-driven sampling technique – an approach useful for sampling hidden populations and efficiently, adjusting for associated sampling bias. The study found that methamphetamine prices tend to fluctuate across a heterogeneous consumer base, …
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Undergraduate Research Experience Programs in Natural Resources, 2012-2016
… program coordinators using researcher-led respondent driven sampling and describes the population of natural resources undergraduate research experience programs during 2012-2016 across 127 such programs. Two-step cluster analysis using program characteristics identified seven variables …
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Μοντέλα σύλληψης-επανασύλληψης για την εκτίμηση του μεγέθους δύσκολα προσεγγίσιμων πληθυσμών
… κατευθυνόμενης από τον συμμετέχοντα (Respondent-Driven Sampling), επιτρέποντας την εφαρμογή κλασικών και Μπεϋζιανών μεθόδων capture–recapture για την εκτίμηση του μεγέθους του πληθυσμού των ΧΕΝ. Μέθοδοι: Εφαρμόστηκε η κλασική μέθοδος σύλληψης–επανασύλληψης σε δεδομένα 5 πηγών για την …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… churches in Lusaka. Purposeful, convenient and respondent driven sampling techniques were used. Methods used to collect data were structured questionnaires, observations, interviews and Focus Group Discussion guides. The theoretical framework involved constructionism and critical theory in the …
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A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
… churches in Lusaka. Purposeful, convenient and respondent driven sampling techniques were used. Methods used to collect data were structured questionnaires, observations, interviews and Focus Group Discussion guides. The theoretical framework involved constructionism and critical theory in the …