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To clarify the conceptual boundaries between convenience snowball sampling and respondent-driven sampling, and to systematically delineate the seven evolutionary forms of the respondent-driven sampling estimator.

August 1, 2011Sociological MethodologyOpen Access

Comment: Snowball versus Respondent-Driven Sampling

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DHDouglas D. HeckathornMount Sinai Beth Israel

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Methodological commentary clarifies distinctions between snowball and respondent-driven sampling in hard-to-reach populations, highlighting seven distinct forms of the estimator.

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To clarify the conceptual boundaries between convenience snowball sampling and respondent-driven sampling, and to systematically delineate the seven evolutionary forms of the respondent-driven sampling estimator.
Reviewed historical and contemporary network-sampling literature spanning social network structural analysis and hard-to-reach population research.
Categorized and differentiated convenience-based link-tracing designs from probability-based respondent-driven sampling estimators.
Delineated the structural differences between traditional convenience snowball sampling and respondent-driven sampling methodology.
Characterized seven distinct evolutionary forms of the respondent-driven sampling estimator developed across successive iterations of the technique.

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Douglas D. Heckathorn (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbbd2e5b363cdf1c835d44 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9531.2011.01244.x

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Methodological commentary clarifies distinctions between snowball and respondent-driven sampling in hard-to-reach populations, highlighting seven distinct forms of the estimator.

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Comment: Snowball versus Respondent-Driven Sampling

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