Respondent-Driven Sampling References:

• "Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations." By Douglas D. Heckathorn.  Social Problems, 1997.
•  The original article in which RDS was introduced
  


• "Respondent-Driven Sampling II: Deriving Valid Population Estimates from Chain-Referral Samples of Hidden Populations." By Douglas D. Heckathorn. Social Problems, 2002.
• Article extending the RDS method to include calculation of standard errors and post-stratification to control for differences in network size and clustering across groups


• “ Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling. ” By Matthew J. Salganik and Douglas D. Heckathorn. Sociological Methodology, 2004
• Article showing through both analytic means and simulations that the RDS population estimator is statistically unbiased
• Outstanding Article Publication Award of the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association


• “Making Unbiased Estimates from Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling.”  By Matthew J. Salganik and Douglas D. Heckathorn.  Paper presented at the International Social Network Conference, February, 2003, Cancun, Mexico



• "Extensions of Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Injection Drug Users Aged 18-25." By Douglas D. Heckathorn, Salaam Semaan, Robert S. Broadhead, and James J. Hughes. AIDS and Behavior, 2002.
• Empirical evaluation of some of the assumptions underlying RDS, and its use to study younger drug injectors
  


• "Group Solidarity as the Product of Collective Action: Creation of Solidarity in a Population of Injection Drug Users." By Douglas D. Heckathorn and Judith E. Rosenstein. Advances in Group Processes, 2002.



• "Development of a Theory of Collective Action: From the Emergence of Norms to AIDS Prevention and the Analysis of Social Structure." By Douglas D. Heckathorn. In New Directions in Sociological Theory: Growth of Contemporary Theories (Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, editors). Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
• History of RDS and the research project from which it emerged


• “Social Networks of Jazz Musicians,” By Douglas D. Heckathorn and Joan Jeffri. In Changing the Beat: A Study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians, Volume III: Respondent-Driven Sampling: Survey Results by the Research Center for Arts and Culture, National Endowment for the Arts Research Division Report #43, pp. 48-61, Washington DC, 2003.
• Use of RDS to study a non-stigmatized hidden population, jazz musicians


• “Finding the Beat: Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to Study Jazz Musicians.” By Douglas D. Heckathorn and Joan Jeffri. Poetics, 2001.
• Use of RDS to study a non-stigmatized hidden population, jazz musicians
  


• “ Street and Network Sampling in Evaluation Studies of HIV Risk-Reduction Interventions. ” By Salaam Semaan, Jennifer Lauby, and Jon Liebman. AIDS Review, 2002.
• Comparison and Evaluation of Alternate Methods for Sampling Hidden Populations.
  


• "Review of Sampling Hard-to-Reach and Hidden Populations for HIV Surveillance." By Robert Magnani, Keith Sabin, Tobi Saidel, and Douglas Heckathorn. AIDS, 2005.