Multinetwork of international trade: A commodity-specific analysis

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Barigozzi, Matteo ^a   Fagiolo, Giorgio ^b   Garlaschelli, Diego ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION STRUCTURE; LINK WEIGHTS; SINGLE NETWORKS; TIME INVARIANTS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TRADE RELATIONS; WEAK LINKS; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 77950921152     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.046104     Document Type: Article

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