'This is a clearly presented and insightful book that provides an excellent mix of mathematical rigor and practical application. I would unhesitatingly recommend the book to anyone interested in social network analysis or discrete clustering methods.' Journal of Classification
This book provides an integrated treatment of blockmodeling, the most frequently used technique in social network analysis. It secures its mathematical foundations and then generalizes blockmodeling for the analysis of many types of network structures. Examples are used throughout the text and include small group structures, little league baseball teams, intra-organizational networks, inter-organizational networks, baboon grooming networks, marriage ties of noble families, trust networks, signed networks, Supreme Court decisions, journal citation networks, and alliance networks. Also provided is an integrated treatment of algebraic and graph theoretic concepts for network analysis and a broad introduction to cluster analysis. These formal ideas are the foundations for the authors' proposal for direct optimizational approaches to blockmodeling which yield blockmodels that best fit the data, a measure of fit that is integral to the establishment of blockmodels, and creates the potential for many generalizations and a deductive use of blockmodeling.
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Preface; 1. Social networks and blockmodels; 2. Network data sets; 3. Mathematical prelude; 4. Relations and graphs for network analysis; 5. Clustering approaches; 6. An optimizational approach to conventional blockmodeling; 7. Foundations for generalized blockmodeling; 8. Blockmodeling two-mode network data; 9. Semirings and lattices; 10. Balance theory and blockmodeling signed networks; 11. Symmetric-acyclic blockmodels; 12. Extending generalized blockmodeling; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.
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This book provides an integrated treatment of generalized blockmodeling appropriate for the analysis network structures.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780521840859
Publisert
2004-11-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
760 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
402