Kaplan, Lorf, and Sterk (1987) studied heroin addicts by identifying a single user and getting names of others to be sampled. These new individuals then provided names of others from the population of interest. This sampling technique is called

a. key informant sampling.
b. targeted sampling.
c. snowball sampling.
d. probability sampling.


c

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