Are social equivalences ever regular?: Permutation and exact tests

Social Networks

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 87-123

  Boyd, John P ^a   Jonas, Kai J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exact tests; Fermi Dirac statistics; Permutation tests; Regular equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035343593     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(01)00032-6     Document Type: Article

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