Community structure and ethnic preferences in school friendship networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 307-316

  Gonzalez M C ^a,b   Herrmann, H J ^b,c   Kertesz J ^d   Vicsek, T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Community structure; Complex networks; Social contacts; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; SOCIAL CONTACTS; SOCIAL PREFERENCES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33947539469     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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