An application of the Continuous Opinions and Discrete Actions (CODA) model to adolescent smoking initiation.

We investigated the impact of peers' opinions on the smoking initiation process among adolescents. We applied the Continuous Opinions and Discrete Actions (CODA) model to study how social interactions change adolescents' opinions and behaviors about smoking. Through agent-based modeling (A...

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Main Authors: Ruoyan Sun, David Mendez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5636134?pdf=render