Effects of missing data in social networks

Social Networks

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-268

  Kossinets, Gueorgi ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipartite graphs; Collaboration networks; Graph theory; Missing data; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747485518     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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