The Lack of Selection Bias in a Snowball Sampled Case-Control Study on Drug Abuse

Open Access

1 December 1996

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 25 (6) , 1267-1270
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/25.6.1267

Abstract

Lopes C S (Instituto de Medicina Social, State University of Rio de Janeiro, R. Sao Francisco Xavier 524, 7 andar, 20559-900 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil), Rodrigues L C and Sichieri R. The lack of selection bias in a snowball sampled case-control study on drug abuse. International Journal of Epidemiology 1996; 25: 1267–1270.

Keywords

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
SNOWBALL SAMPLING
SELECTION BIAS
FRIENDSHIP MATCHING
DRUG ABUSE