Advances in biased net theory: Definitions, derivations, and estimations

Social Networks

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-139

  Skvoretz, John ^a   Fararo, Thomas J ^b   Agneessens, Filip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biased net theory; Large scale networks; Pseudo likelihood method

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842812528     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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