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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2019

Network multipliers and public health.

Tyler J VanderWeele, Nicholas A Christakis

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Accounting for Context in Randomized Trials after Assignment.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022
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  13. Do alcohol interventions affect peers who do not receive the intervention? Modeling treatment contagion effects via simulations of adolescent social networks.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021
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  15. Is having an educationally diverse social network good for health?Network science (Cambridge University Press) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tyler J VanderWeeleDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston, MA, USA.
Nicholas A ChristakisDepartment of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

Theory and methods for mediation and interactionR01CA222147 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI TCHETGEN TCHETGEN, ERIC JOEL, VANDERWEELE, TYLER · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA222147
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Epidemiologic MethodsModels, TheoreticalCommunicable DiseasesHumansPublic HealthSocial Media

Identifiers

PMID30793743
PMCPMC6693811

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