Research note: The consequences of different methods for handling missing network data in stochastic actor based models

Social Networks

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-71

  Hipp, John R ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Butts, Carter T ^a,b,c   Jose, Rupa ^a   Lakon, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer influence substance use behavior; Peer selection; SIENA; Smoking; Stochastic actor based model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922138835     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.12.004     Document Type: Article

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