On snowball sampling, random mappings and related problems
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 18 (01) , 283-290
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200097849
Abstract
If a rumour is spread in a population through random contacts between its members, to how many people, on average, will the rumour be told? What can be said about the variations in the number of people who have heard the rumour? Does it matter very much whether a single person or a group of persons starts spreading the rumour? Questions such as these are discussed below, using the framework of a simple stochastic model for snowball sampling.Keywords
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