Structural effects of network sampling coverage I: Nodes missing at random

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 652-668

  Smith, Jeffrey A ^a   Moody, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing data; Network bias; Network sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885342812     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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