David Knoke and Song Yang′ s Social Network Analysis, Third Edition provides a concise
introduction to the concepts and tools of social network analysis. The authors convey key …

'An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on
social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a …

Social network analysts use two kinds of tools from mathematics to represent information
about patterns of ties among social actors: graphs and matrices. In this chapter, we'll provide …

Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis, first published in 2005, presents the most
important developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network …

Written by a sociologist, a graph theorist, and a statistician, this title provides social network
analysts and students with a solid statistical foundation from which to analyze network data …

Since the 1970s, communication researchers have utilized social network analysis to
understand mass, health, organizational, and interpersonal communication. This article …

While some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased
visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be …

We review the broad range of recent statistical work in social network models, with emphasis
on computational aspects of these methods. Particular focus is applied to exponential-family …

In a short introduction on social network analysis, the main characteristics of social network
data as well as the main goals of social network analysis are described. An overview of …

Recent advances in statistical network analysis based on the family of exponential random
graph (ERG) models have greatly improved our ability to conduct inference on dependence …