Project SNOW is a Python-based utility designed for conducting snowball sampling to collect Telegram channels through forwards. This script uses the Telethon library to interact with Telegram's API, ...

A contact process first posed as a random mapping problem is discussed together with a model for the spread of a rumour through an archaic telephone system. Snowball sampling and the well-known ...

ABSTRACT: Snowball sampling, as a network research, has a number of advantages in registering “hidden populations”, such as: people with rare diseases and unrecognized by the community, illegal ...

Researchers examined the association between plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and the incidence of HIV in injecting drug users. A prospective cohort study design was used. Participants were injecting ...

Snowball sampling discovers channels through forwarded messages, starting with a seed channel and expanding outward. This method identifies both the origin and dissemination paths of information, ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examined the influence of entrepreneurship competence on employability among technical and vocational education and training graduates in Tanzania and the moderating role of ...

The news is full of widely (and wildly) varying estimates of the scale and scope of human trafficking. This is partly because vulnerable individuals are often hidden and are therefore hard to count.