To tell the truth: Measuring concordance in multiply reported network data

Social Networks

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-58

  adams, jimi ^a   Moody, James ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Link tracing; Methodology; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846274243     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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