Detecting measurement bias in respondent reports of personal networks

Social Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-383

  Feld, Scott L ^a   Carter, William C ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Network size; Social network analysis; Sociometric data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036787832     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(02)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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