Estimating HIV prevalence and risk behaviors of transgender persons in the United States: a systematic review

JH Herbst, ED Jacobs, TJ Finlayson, VS McKleroy… - AIDS and Behavior, 2008 - Springer
Transgender populations in the United States have been impacted by the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. This systematic review estimates the prevalence of HIV infection and risk …

Using respondent-driven sampling methodology for HIV biological and behavioral surveillance in international settings: a systematic review

M Malekinejad, LG Johnston, C Kendall, LRFS Kerr… - AIDS and Behavior, 2008 - Springer
To determine operational and analytical characteristics of respondent-driven sampling
(RDS) in international settings and to explore factors that may affect recruitment of most-at …

Respondent‐driven sampling: an assessment of current methodology

KJ Gile, MS Handcock - Sociological methodology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Respondent‐driven sampling (RDS) employs a variant of a link‐tracing network sampling
strategy to collect data from hard‐to‐reach populations. By tracing the links in the underlying …

Assessing respondent-driven sampling

S Goel, MJ Salganik - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a network-based technique for estimating traits in
hard-to-reach populations, for example, the prevalence of HIV among drug injectors. In …

Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling

N McCreesh, SDW Frost, J Seeley, J Katongole… - …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background: Respondent-driven sampling is a novel variant of link-tracing sampling for
estimating the characteristics of hard-to-reach groups, such as HIV prevalence in sex …

Extensions of respondent‐driven sampling: analyzing continuous variables and controlling for differential recruitment

DD Heckathorn - Sociological methodology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Respondent‐driven sampling (RDS) is a network‐based method for sampling hidden and
hard‐to‐reach populations that has been shown to produce asymptotically unbiased …

Improved inference for respondent-driven sampling data with application to HIV prevalence estimation

KJ Gile - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Respondent-driven sampling is a form of link-tracing network sampling, which is widely used
to study hard-to-reach populations, often to estimate population proportions. Previous …

Survey methods for hard-to-reach populations: introduction to the special issue

M Marpsat, N Razafindratsima - Methodological Innovations …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Surveys of hard to reach populations (rare, no known sampling frames) have been, for some
years, the object of methodological reflection. Various methods aiming at the production of …

Web-based network sampling: efficiency and efficacy of respondent-driven sampling for online research

C Wejnert, DD Heckathorn - Sociological Methods & …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This study tests the feasibility, effectiveness, and efficiency of respondent-driven sampling
(RDS) as a Web-based sampling method. Web-based RDS (WebRDS) is found to be highly …

Comparison of the prevalence rates of HIV infection between men who have sex with men (MSM) and men in the general population in sub-Saharan Africa: a …

PHS Hessou, Y Glele-Ahanhanzo, R Adekpedjou… - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background According to the 2015 report of the Joint United Nations Program on Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the …