Direct and indirect approaches to blockmodeling of valued networks in terms of regular equivalence

Journal of Mathematical Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-84

  Ziberna, Ales ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Blockmodeling; Generalized blockmodeling; REGE; Regular equivalence; Social networks; Valued networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349164122     PISSN: 0022250X     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222500701790207     Document Type: Article

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