Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 857 pages
- Published by: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1st Edition November 25, 1994
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0521387078
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521387071
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Review
"It should be an invaluable reference for scholars in the field and a critical resource." Journal of the American Statistical Association
"The long-awaited publication of this volume marks a half-century maturation of social network analysis into a multidisciplinary research specialty with distinctive vocabulary, theoretical principles, and data-analytic techniques. Wasserman and Faust provide a compass by which to steer our path into the next century." Theory and Methods
Book Description
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.
Reader Reviews
I am a research consultant specializing in SNA. This book is the best in the field, as a reference for those formally trained in the discipline or a self-instruction manual for those who really want to use SNA methodology. It's well written; but the mathematical and combinatric underpinnings of SNA won't make for light reading. This books stands out among others in that each subject area is thoroughly documented and cited for further reading and examples of application, and that the base algorithms are provided for most SNA techniques - useful if you want to learn how to "do" instead of just run a software package, or want to program your own. No SNA analyst should neglect this reference.
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