A stochastic simulation model to study respondent-driven recruitment

• Mart L. Stein ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mart.stein@rivm.nl

  Affiliation National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-7993

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• Vincent Buskens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Peter G. M. van der Heijden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Jim E. van Steenbergen,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Albert Wong,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Martin C. J. Bootsma,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Mirjam E. E. Kretzschmar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre for Infectious, Disease Control, RIVM, Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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