Empiricism and theorizing in epidemiology and social network analysis

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rothenberg, Richard ^a   Costenbader, Elizabeth ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENTATION; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORY;

EID: 79251537125     PISSN: 1687708X     EISSN: 16877098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/157194     Document Type: Review

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