An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks

Social Networks

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-191

  Robins, Garry ^a   Pattison, Pip ^a   Kalish, Yuval ^a   Lusher, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exponential random graph models; p* models; Statistical models for social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147137805     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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