Modeling social networks from sampled data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-25

  Handcock, Mark S ^a   Gile, Krista J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design based inference; Exponential family random graph model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; P model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870257663     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS221     Document Type: Article

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