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Contrasting Multiple Social Network Autocorrelations for Binary Outcomes, With Applications To Technology Adoption
Bin Zhang, A. C. Thomas, Patrick Doreian +2
The rise of socially targeted marketing suggests that decisions made by consumers can be predicted not only from their personal tastes and characteristics, but also from the decisi…
Competing Process Hazard Function Models for Player Ratings in Ice Hockey
A. C. Thomas, Samuel L. Ventura, Shane Jensen +1
Evaluating the overall ability of players in the National Hockey League (NHL) is a difficult task. Existing methods such as the famous "plus/minus" statistic have many shortcomings…
The Social Contagion Hypothesis: Comment on "Social Contagion Theory: Examining Dynamic Social Networks and Human Behavior"
A. C. Thomas
I reflect on the statistical methods of the Christakis-Fowler studies on network-based contagion of traits by checking the sensitivity of these kinds of results to various alternat…
Censoring Outdegree Compromises Inferences of Social Network Peer Effects and Autocorrelation
Andrew C. Thomas
I examine the consequences of modelling contagious influence in a social network with incomplete edge information, namely in the situation where each individual may name a limited…