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. 2017:2017:smx018.
doi: 10.1093/jssam/smx018. Epub 2017 Aug 17.

Evaluating Variance Estimators for Respondent-Driven Sampling

Michael W Spiller  1 , Krista J Gile  2 , Mark S Handcock  3 , Corinne M Mar  4 , Cyprian Wejnert  1
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Evaluating Variance Estimators for Respondent-Driven Sampling

Michael W Spiller et al. J Surv Stat Methodol. 2017.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
95% confidence interval (CI) coverage percentages for 40 sets of RDS simulations (sampling without replacement; studentized bootstrap CI method). The horizontal axis is the nominal 95% CI coverage percentage, and the vertical axis is the 40 simulation sets ordered from top to bottom by the SS coverage percentage (the red line). The left panel’s horizontal axis ranges from 0 to 100%; the right panel’s horizontal axis ranges from 80% to 100% for detail. The coverage percentages for the sample mean do not appear in the right panel.
Figure 2
Figure 2
95% confidence interval (CI) coverage percentages for 40 sets of RDS simulations (VH/Sal-BS estimator pair) by bootstrap CI method and sampling with and without replacement. The horizontal axis is the nominal 95% CI coverage percentage, and the vertical axis is the 40 simulation sets ordered from top to bottom by the without replacement, studentized bootstrap condition (the purple line and triangles).
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