Positional estimation within a latent space model for networks

Methodology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-33

  Shortreed, Susan ^a   Handcock, Mark S ^a   Hoff, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood estimation; Random graph models; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247170538     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241.2.1.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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