Longitudinal analysis of large social networks: Estimating the effect of health traits on changes in friendship ties

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 950-964

  O'malley, A James ^a   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic independence; Hierarchical model; Homophily on health traits; Longitudinal; Social network

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH ORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HANDEDNESS; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCULARITY; ONLY CHILD; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79953753542     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4190     Document Type: Article

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