Rejoinder to commentaries on social contagion theory

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 597-599

  Christakis, Nicholas A ^a   Fowler, James H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THEORY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SOCIAL CONTAGION THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84872761354     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5698     Document Type: Note

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