Anthropology: Analyzing large kinship and marriage networks with Pgraph and Pajek

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-274

  White, Douglas R ^a   Batagelj, Vladimir ^b   Mrvar, Andrej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

Author keywords

Cohesion; Genealogy; Graph theory; Graphic representation; Kinship; Large network analysis; Marriage networks; Pajek; Pgraph; Social groups and roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033246845     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089443939901700302     Document Type: Article

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