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SUBMITTER: de la Haye K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456568 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de la Haye Kayla K Shin Heesung H Vega Yon George G GG Valente Thomas W TW
Journal of health and social behavior 20190901 3
This study uses recent data to investigate if smoking initiation diffuses through friendship networks over the high school period and explores if diffusion processes differ across schools. One thousand four hundred and twenty-five racially and ethnically diverse youth from four high schools in Los Angeles were surveyed four times over the high school period from 2010 to 2013. Probit regression models and stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics tested for peer effects on smoking initia ...[more]