Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 8) - Softcover

Wasserman, Stanley; Faust, Katherine

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9780521387071: Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 8)
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ISBN 10: 0521387078 ISBN 13: 9780521387071
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Social network analysis, which focuses on relationships among social entities, is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. As the first book to provide a comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field, this study is both a reference book and a textbook.

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Book Description

Focusing on relationships among social entities, social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, marketing and industrial engineering. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the field, and is a reference book as well as a textbook.

About the Author

Stanley Wasserman is Professor of Psychology, Statistics, and Sociology at the University of Illinois-Champaign. He has done research on methodology for social networks for almost thirty years. He has edited books on the subject, including Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1994), and Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (1994). His work is recognized by statisticians as well as social and behavioral scientists worldwide. He is currently Book Review Editor of Chance, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Psychometrika. He has also been a very active consultant, and is currently Chief Scientist of Visible Path, an organizational network software firm.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521387078
ISBN 13 
9780521387071
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
857
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