A critical threshold for design effects in network sampling

DOI10.1214/18-AOS1700zbMath1417.62021OpenAlexW2903178091MaRDI QIDQ1731771

Karl Rohe

Publication date: 14 March 2019

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1543568598

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapMarkov propertyGalton-Watson processdesign effectnetworks and graphsrespondent driven sampling (RDS)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20)

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Uses Software

• RDS

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