Table 3. Characteristics of the estimation process using RDS, regarding syphilis serostatus.
| Participants giving referral coupons | Syphilis status of subsequent recruit | |
| Infected | Uninfected | |
| Syphilis-positive participants | ||
| Recruitment count | 11 | 41 |
| Recruitment proportion (%) | 21.2 | 78.8 |
| Syphilis-negative participants | ||
| Recruitment count | 40 | 328 |
| Recruitment proportion (%) | 10.9 | 89.1 |
| Estimated network size | 5.6 | 6.9 |
| Sample proportion, Ps | 12.6 | 87.4 |
| RDS-adjusted proportion, P | 14.6 | 85.4 |
| Equilibrium proportion, Pe | 12.1 | 87.9 |
| Absolute discrepancy between Ps and Pe | 0.5 | |
| Standard error of P | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| RDS-weight | 1.159 | 0.977 |
| Homophily | 0.077 | 0.251 |