Choosing a centrality measure: Epidemiologic correlates in the Colorado Springs study of social networks Article

Rothenberg, RB, Potterat, JJ, Woodhouse, DE et al. (1995). Choosing a centrality measure: Epidemiologic correlates in the Colorado Springs study of social networks . Social Networks, 17(3-4), 273-297. 10.1016/0378-8733(95)00267-R

cited authors

  • Rothenberg, RB; Potterat, JJ; Woodhouse, DE; Darrow, WW; Muth, SQ; Klovdahl, AS

abstract

  • In a continuing analysis of a large network of persons who practice risky behaviors in an area of low prevalence for HIV transmission, we compared eight measures of centrality. Although these measures differ in their theoretical formulation and their distributional forms, they demonstrated substantial concordance in ranking as noncentral all but one of the HIV-positive persons in a large connected component of 341 persons, providing further support for the role of network structure in disease transmission. © 1995.

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publication date

  • January 1, 1995

published in

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start page

  • 273

end page

  • 297

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 3-4