VanderWeele, Tyler J. - In: Sociological Methods & Research 40 (2011) 2, pp. 240-255
social networks. Individuals exert “contagion effects” on one another through social ties and association. These analyses … which the conclusion of contagion effects seems somewhat less plausible. The author uses sensitivity analysis techniques to … assess the extent to which supposed contagion effects for obesity, smoking, happiness, and loneliness might be explained away …