Similarity in friendship networks: Selection or influence? The effect of constraining contexts and non-visible individual attributes

Social Networks

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-90

  de Klepper, Maurits ^a   Sleebos, Ed ^a   van de Bunt, Gerhard ^a   Agneessens, Filip ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Contagion; Friendship networks; Influence; Selection; Stochastic actor based models

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649109115     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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