Curved exponential family models for social networks

Social Networks

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 216-230

  Hunter, David R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential random graph model; Maximum likelihood estimation; p Star model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147139437     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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