Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures

Social Networks

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 300-315

  McCarty, Christopher ^a   Killworth, Peter D ^b   Rennell, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personal networks; Respondent burden; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147144883     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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