Empiricism and Theorizing in Epidemiology and Social Network Analysis

Table 1

Network features with chronological accrual of respondents.

Number of respondents	10	20	30	40	50	100	150	All (206)
Number of persons in network	62	131	202	284	367	685	981	1314
Degree (mean of interviewed respondents)	7.4	8.1	8.3	8.6	8.8	8.4	8.0	7.6
Degree (mean of all persons in network)	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3
Degree (variance)	10.5	13.4	13.1	12.8	12.5	12.1	11.8	10.9
Concurrency (kappa)	5.9	7.1	7.0	6.9	6.8	6.6	6.4	6.1
Clustering coefficient	0.034	0.034	0.033	0.029	0.028	0.033	0.041	0.036
Power coefficient	2.79	2.19	2.23	1.76	1.71	1.65	1.59	1.59
Age assortativity	0.313	0.299	0.348	0.315	0.285	0.329	0.323	0.319