ArticleStatistics in medicine2013
The social contagion hypothesis: comment on 'Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior'.
Article in Statistics in medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stress contagion in school: A multiverse analysis of social influence on school-related stress.PloS one · 2026Article
- Spreading of components of mood in adolescent social networks.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Estimating peer effects in networks with peer encouragement designs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Evaluating reproductive decisions as discrete choices under social influence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- From social networks to health: Durkheim after the turn of the millennium. Introduction.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
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Abstract
I reflect on the statistical methods of the Christakis-Fowler studies on network-based contagion of traits by checking the sensitivity of these kinds of results to various alternate specifications and generative mechanisms. Despite the honest efforts of all involved, I remain pessimistic about establishing whether binary health outcomes or product adoptions are contagious if the evidence comes from simultaneously observed data.
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