We examine the spread of a disease or behavior through a social network. In particular, we analyze how infection rates … first- and second order stochastic dominance relationships of the degree distribution in order to compare infection rates … across different social networks. …

most successful neighbor. We show that in finite networks, regardless of the network structure, the population converges to … this action will be. In arbitrarily large networks with bounded neighborhoods, an action is diffused to the whole …