Models -- Introduction -- History -- Methods -- Ego- and personal-network effects -- Measures -- Centrality -- Groups -- Positions -- Network-level measures -- Applications -- Exponential random graph models, P, and actor oriented models -- Diffusion and innovations -- Network interventions -- Summary
Summary
Providing a comprehensive introduction to how socialnetworks influence health behaviours, this book enables researchers to understand how network data are collected and processed; and how to calculate appropriate metrics and models used to understand network influences on health behaviour
