CHOOSING A CENTRALITY MEASURE - EPIDEMIOLOGIC CORRELATES IN THE COLORADO-SPRINGS STUDY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

Authors
ROTHENBERG RB POTTERAT JJ WOODHOUSE DE DARROW WW MUTH SQ KLOVDAHL AS
Citation
Rb. Rothenberg et al., CHOOSING A CENTRALITY MEASURE - EPIDEMIOLOGIC CORRELATES IN THE COLORADO-SPRINGS STUDY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, Social networks, 17(3-4), 1995, pp. 273-297
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology,Anthropology
Journal title
Social networks → ACNP
ISSN journal
03788733
Volume
17
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
273 - 297
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-8733(1995)17:3-4<273:CACM-E>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
In a continuing analysis of a large network of persons who practice ri sky behaviors in an area of low prevalence for HIV transmission, we co mpared eight measures of centrality. Although these measures differ in their theoretical formulation and their distributional forms, they de monstrated substantial concordance in ranking as noncentral all but on e of the HIV-positive persons in a large connected component of 341 pe rsons, providing further support for the role of network structure in disease transmission.