เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การเลือกตัวอย่างแบบลูกบอลหิมะปรับตัว	การชักชวนผู้ตอบแบบสอบถามแบบลูกโซ่
สาขาวิชา	ระเบียบวิธีสำรวจ	ระเบียบวิธีสำรวจ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1990s–2000s (as combined approach)	1997
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Combines principles from S. K. Thompson (adaptive sampling, 1990) and L. A. Goodman (snowball sampling, 1961)	Douglas Heckathorn
ประเภท	Non-probability / adaptive sampling design	Probabilistic chain-referral sampling design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Thompson, S. K. (1990). Adaptive cluster sampling. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85(412), 1050–1059.	Heckathorn, D. D. (1997). Respondent-driven sampling: A new approach to the study of hidden populations. Social Problems, 44(2), 174–199.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	adaptive referral sampling, adaptive chain-referral sampling, dynamic snowball sampling	Chain-Referral Sampling, Peer-Referral Sampling, Network-Based Sampling, Katılımcı Güdümlü Örnekleme
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	Adaptive snowball sampling is a hybrid sampling strategy that recruits initial participants (seeds) from a target population and then dynamically adjusts referral chains based on pre-specified criteria — such as population density, diversity, or theoretical saturation. Combining the chain-referral logic of snowball sampling with the responsive decision rules of adaptive sampling, it is particularly suited to studying rare, hidden, or hard-to-reach populations where conventional frames are unavailable.	Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a probabilistic chain-referral method designed to reach hidden or hard-to-reach populations that lack a sampling frame. Introduced by sociologist Douglas Heckathorn in 1997, RDS combines snowball recruitment with mathematical weighting based on participants' personal network sizes, allowing researchers to generate population-level estimates even when no complete membership list exists.