Conditional estimation of exponential random graph models from snowball sampling designs

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 284-296

  Pattison, Philippa E ^a   Robins, Garry L ^a   Snijders, Tom A B ^b,c   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conditional Markov chain Monte Carlo maximum likelihood estimation; Exponential random graph models; Snowball sampling; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890215300     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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