Statistical Network Analysis for Analyzing Policy Networks

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-401

  Robins, Garry ^a   Lewis, Jenny M ^b   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exponential random graph models; Innovation; Quadratic assignment procedure; Social network models; Statistical models; Stochastic actor oriented models

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY APPROACH; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL POLICY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84864496526     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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