Non-response in social networks: The impact of different non-response treatments on the stability of blockmodels

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 438-450

  Žnidaršič, Anja ^a   Ferligoj, Anuška ^b   Doreian, Patrick ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor non response; Blockmodeling; Imputation; Missing data; Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872383629     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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