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From: Association between tuberculosis in men and social network structure in Kampala, Uganda

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Types of egocentric network sampling varies in the amount of information collected outward from the index individual. Index individuals, shown in yellow, list their contacts in ego-only sampling (a). In first-level egocentric sampling (b), index individuals additionally indicate whether their contacts are also contacts. In second-level egocentric sampling (c), contacts of index individuals list their own contacts. The social network in the Kampala study utilized a second-level egocentric design. We used sensitivity analyses to understand how these types of egocentric sampling designs alter estimates of network centrality statistics

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