christakis in A Sentence

    1

    Christakis found that smoking and obesity can be socially infectious too.

    0
    2

    Nicholas Christakis, 47, a physician and sociologist at Harvard University, challenges this idea.

    0
    3

    Recently I wrote a short summary of Christakis's research for Time magazine 100 people of 2009.

    0
    4

    For instance, Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard and Dr. James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, inspired by the Friendship Paradox, decided to do a study, Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks, where they contacted 319 random Harvard students and asked them to name some friends.

    0
    5

    In this paper, James and his colleagues Jaime Settle and Nicholas Christakis demonstrate that there is what they call"genotypic clustering in social networks", by statistically examining the association between markers for six different genes and the reported friendship networks from respondents in data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Framingham Heart Study Social Network.

    0