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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Methods Res. 2011 May;40(2):240–255. doi: 10.1177/0049124111404821

Table 2.

Sensitivity Analysis for the Effect of a Spouse’s Smoking Cessation Status on an Ego’s Smoking Cessation: Corrected Contagion Effect Estimate Under Latent Homophily for Smoking Cessation: Percent Increase (95% CI)

Prevalence of U Effect of latent factor U on Smoking Cessation (γ)

1.2 1.5 1.8 2 2.5 3 4
π1 =0.6, π0=0.4 61 (53,67) 54 (47,60) 49 (42,54) 46 (39,51) 41 (34,46) 37 (30,42) 31 (25,36)
π1 =0.65, π0=0.35 58 (51,64) 48 (41,53) 41 (34,46) 37 (30,42) 29 (23,34) 23 (18,28) 16 (10,20)
π1 =0.7, π0=0.3 55 (48,61) 42 (35,47) 32 (26,38) 28 (22,32) 18 (12,22) 11 (5,15) 2 (−2,6)
π1 =0.7, π0=0.25 54 (46,59) 39 (33,44) 28 (22,33) 23 (17,27) 12 (6,16) 4 (−1,8) −6 (−10,−2)
π1 =0.75, π0=0.25 52 (45,58) 37 (30,42) 25 (19,30) 19 (13,23) 8 (2,12) 0 (−5,4) −10 (−14,−7)
π1 =0.8, π0=0.25 51 (44,57) 34 (28,39) 22 (16,27) 16 (10,20) 4 (−1,8) −4 (−8,0) −14 (−18,−10)
π1 =0.8 π0=0.2 50 (43,55) 31 (25,36) 18 (12,22) 11 (5,15) −1 (−6,2) −10 (−14,−6) −21 (−25,−19)

Settings with π1 < π0 all result with percent increase and 95% CI large than the observed estimate of 67 (59, 73)