Comment on "Why and When 'Flawed' Social Network Analyses Still Yield Valid Tests of no Contagion"

Shalizi Cosma Rohilla
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Shalizi Cosma Rohilla: Carnegie Mellon University

Statistics, Politics and Policy, 2012, vol. 3, issue 1, 5

Abstract: VanderWeele et al.'s paper is a useful contribution to the on-going scientific conversation about the detection of contagion from purely observational data. It is especially helpful as a corrective to some of the more extreme statements of Lyons (2011). Unfortunately, this paper, too, goes too far in some places, and so needs some correction itself.

Keywords: social networks; causal inference; contagion; social influence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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