Composition and structure of social networks
Frank, Ove
Mathématiques et Sciences humaines, Tome 140 (1997), p. 11-23 / Harvested from Numdam
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Les réseaux sociaux représentent une ou plusieurs relation entre des individus, et des informations sur ces individus eux-mêmes. Les réseaux sociaux montrent à la fois la structure du réseau et des informations sur les individus. Des modèles probabilistes peuvent être utilisés pour analyser les interrelations entre les variables structurelles et les variables individuelles - par exemple pour expliquer comment la structure peut être interprétée par les informations dont on dispose sur les individus ou comment la composition de celles-ci peut être interprétée par la structure. L'auteur discute différents modèles et utilise diverses méthodes statistiques pour illustrer les interrelations entre des données concernant un réseau.

Social networks representing one or more relationships between individuals and one or more categorical characteristics of the individuals exhibit both structure and composition. Probabilistic models of such networks can be used for analyzing the interrelations between structural and compositional variables, for instance in order to find how structure can be explained by composition or how structure explains composition. Different models are discussed and different statistical methods are employed to illustrate such interrelationships in network data.

Publié le : 1997-01-01
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Frank, Ove. Composition and structure of social networks. Mathématiques et Sciences humaines, Tome 140 (1997) pp. 11-23. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/MSH_1997__137__11_0/

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