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chords (version 0.95.4)

chords-package: Population size estimation for respondent driven sampling

Description

Estimates population size and degree distribution in respondent driven samples (RDS).

Arguments

Details

Maximum likelihood estimation of population size using the methodology in the reference. The fundamental idea is of modeling the sampling as an epidemic process. See Estimate.b.k for details.

References

[1] Berchenko, Y., Rosenblatt J.D., and S.D.W. Frost. "Modeling and Analyzing Respondent Driven Sampling as a Counting Process." arXiv:1304.3505