Respondent-driven sampling to recruit MDMA users: a methodological assessment.
Recruiting samples that are more representative of illicit drug users is an on-going challenge in substance abuse research. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS), a new form of chain-referral sampling, is designed to eliminate the bias caused by the non-random selection of the initial recruits and reduce...
| Publicado en: | Drug & Alcohol Dependence Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 147 - 158 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
May2005
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