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Table 4 Experimental design: simulation parameters and number of runs

From: Effectiveness variation in simulated school-based network interventions

Parameter

Values

Network

17 undirected, adapted from WiSe friendship nominations

Intervention

2 deterministic: High Degree, Community Leaders

 

5 stochastic: Random Uniform, Random by Degree, Friend of Random, Community, Persuasive

Seed group size

15% of network, rounded up

Contagion

Simple, with transmission probability 0.4, 0.7 or 1

 

Complex, with threshold proportions of 0.2 to 0.7 by 0.1

Repetitions

5 for deterministic interventions and complex contagion

 

100 for stochastic interventions and complex contagion

 

100 for deterministic interventions and simple contagion

 

1000 for stochastic interventions and simple contagion