Bayesian analysis for partially observed network data, missing ties, attributes and actors

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 514-527

  Koskinen, Johan H ^a   Robins, Garry L ^b   Wang, Peng ^b   Pattison, Philippa E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ERGM (p star); Exchange algorithm; Imputation; Markov graph; Missing data; Network boundary; Non response; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883307809     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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