Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 15274-15278

  Eagle, Nathan ^a,b   Pentland, Alex ^b   Lazer, David ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering social systems; Reality mining; Relational inference; Relational scripts; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FRIENDS; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS;

EID: 70349313631     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900282106     Document Type: Article

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