Random errors in egocentric networks

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 493-505

  Almquist, Zack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Egocentric network; Egonet; Error; Facebook; Network error

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872397175     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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