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Nicholas A. Christakis
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 315
Citations - 52685
Nicholas A. Christakis is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Social network. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 307 publications receiving 48235 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas A. Christakis include Mount Auburn Hospital & University of Notre Dame.
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Social network correlates of IPV acceptance in rural Honduras and rural Uganda.
Holly B. Shakya,Jessica M. Perkins,Margaret Traeger,Alexander C. Tsai,David R. Bangsberg,Bernard Kakuhikire,Nicholas A. Christakis +6 more
TL;DR: It was found individuals from more cohesive households were less likely to accept IPV controlling for the overall level of IPV acceptance in the household, and those in households more accepting of IPv were more likely to personally accept IPv.
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Referral Patterns and Reasons for Referral Among Primary Care and Specialist Physicians
Michael L. Barnett,Nancy L. Keating,Nicholas A. Christakis,Alistair J. O'Malley,Bruce E. Landon +4 more
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Assortative mating at loci under recent natural selection in humans
TL;DR: A method is developed to measure assortative mating across the genome at 1,044,854 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), controlling for population stratification and cohort-specific cryptic relatedness, and shows that the group of SNPs exhibiting the most assortativity has been under stronger recent positive selection.
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Testing for Balance in Social Networks
TL;DR: A novel test of balance is proposed that accounts for the discrepancy in the number of negative ties in balance theory and is more accurate at detecting balance, and proves asymptotic normality of the test statistic under the null model.
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Lack of sexual behavior disclosure may distort STI testing outcomes
Navin Kumar,Laura Forastiere,Tiange Zhang,Tiange Zhang,Fan Yang,Katherine T. Li,Weiming Tang,Weiming Tang,Joseph D. Tucker,Joseph D. Tucker,Nicholas A. Christakis,Marcus Alexander +11 more
TL;DR: Sexual behavior and outness may affect gonorrhea and chlamydia testing provision among Chinese MSM and community based efforts may reduce stigma based barriers to testing.