A stochastic simulation model to study respondent-driven recruitment.

Respondent-driven detection is a chain recruitment method used to sample contact persons of infected persons in order to enhance case finding. It starts with initial individuals, so-called seeds, who are invited for participation. Afterwards, seeds receive a fixed number of coupons to invite individ...

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Main Authors: Mart L Stein, Vincent Buskens, Peter G M van der Heijden, Jim E van Steenbergen, Albert Wong, Martin C J Bootsma, Mirjam E E Kretzschmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6237413?pdf=render