Distance and cosine measures of niche overlap

Social Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-165

  Sohn, Min Woong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Competition; Cosine; Euclidean distance; Niche overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035343461     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(01)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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