Does the online collection of ego-centered network data reduce data quality? An experimental comparison

Social Networks

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-111

  Matzat, Uwe ^a   Snijders, Chris ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data quality; Experiment; Online data collection; Social network data; Web surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649182186     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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