Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis

by Peter J. Carrington; John Scott; Stanley Wasserman

• ISBN13: 9780511110047
• ISBN10: 0511110049
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-02-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis presents the most important developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that have appeared during the 1990s. Intended as a complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, it is a collection of articles by leading methodologists reviewing advances in their particular areas of network methods. Reviewed are advances in network measurement, network sampling, the analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, the analysis of diffusion through networks, the analysis of affiliation or 'two-mode' networks, the theory of random graphs, dependence graphs, exponential families of random graphs, the analysis of longitudinal network data, graphical techniques for exploring network data, and software for the analysis of social networks.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Recent developments in network measurement

Network sampling and model fitting

Extending centrality

Positional analyses of sociometric data

Network models and methods for studying the diffusion of innovations

Using correspondence analysis for joint displays of affiliation networks

An introduction to random graphs, dependence graphs, and p*

Random graph models for social networks: multiple relations or multiple raters

Interdependencies and social processes: dependence graphs and generalized dependence structures

Models for longitudinal network data

Graphical techniques for exploring social network data

Software for social network analysis

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