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The Fit Between Theory and Data in Respondent-Driven Sampling: Response to Heimer

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  1. School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

    Jesus Ramirez-Valles & Raquel Vázquez

  2. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.

    Douglas D. Heckathorn

  3. César E. Chávez Institute, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, U.S.

    Rafael M. Diaz

  4. Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

    Richard T. Campbell

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The reciprocity index can also be calculated using not the original recruitment matrix, but the demographically adjusted recruitment matrix (Heckathorn, 2002). This corrects for differences in cross-count recruitments that are due, not to non-random recruitment from personal networks, but from differential recruitment, such as HIV-positive recruiting more than HIV-negatives. However, because demographic adjustment tends to reduce cross-counts differentials, this approach yields a less conservative form of the index.

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Ramirez-Valles, J., Heckathorn, D.D., Vázquez, R. et al. The Fit Between Theory and Data in Respondent-Driven Sampling: Response to Heimer. AIDS Behav 9, 409–414 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-005-9031-0

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