"Three can keep a secret if two are dead" (Lavigne, 1996): Weak ties as infiltration routes

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 193-216

  Faia, Michael A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial analysis; Group dynamics; Group size; Infiltration; Law enforcement; Maple computer algebra system; Mathematical sociology; Network analysis; Social networks; Terrorist conspiracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178060     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004785122594     Document Type: Article

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