Parsing social network survey data from hidden populations using stochastic context-free grammars.

BACKGROUND:Human populations are structured by social networks, in which individuals tend to form relationships based on shared attributes. Certain attributes that are ambiguous, stigmatized or illegal can create a OhiddenO population, so-called because its members are difficult to identify. Many hi...

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Main Authors: Art F Y Poon, Kimberly C Brouwer, Steffanie A Strathdee, Michelle Firestone-Cruz, Remedios M Lozada, Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond, Douglas D Heckathorn, Simon D W Frost
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2734164?pdf=render