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cs.SI2011★ 34 cited
Social Contagion Theory: Examining Dynamic Social Networks and Human Behavior
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
Here, we review the research we have done on social contagion. We describe the methods we have employed (and the assumptions they have entailed) in order to examine several dataset…
physics.soc-ph2011★ 27 cited
Spreading paths in partially observed social networks
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Nicholas A. Christakis
Understanding how and how far information, behaviors, or pathogens spread in social networks is an important problem, having implications for both predicting the size of epidemics,…