Metric inference for social networks

DOI10.1007/BF01201026zbMath0812.92028WikidataQ63170205 ScholiaQ63170205MaRDI QIDQ1344868

David L. Banks, Kathleen M. Carley

Publication date: 22 February 1995

Published in: Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionmaximum likelihood estimateslocationconfidence regionshypothesis testsnatural metricfriendship cognitive social structure dataindependent and identically distributed networksnetwork-valued random variablesspace of networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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Uses Software

• alr3
• Ucinet

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