Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis

A collection of original reviews by leading methodologists of recent advances in their particular areas.

This book consists of review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press).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 data that have appeared during the 1990s. Intended as a complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, it is a collection of articles by leading methodologists reviewing advances in their particular areas of network methods. Reviewed are advances in network measurement, network sampling, the analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, the analysis of diffusion through networks, the analysis of affiliation or 'two-mode' networks, the theory of random graphs, dependence graphs, exponential families of random graphs, the analysis of longitudinal network data, graphical techniques for exploring network data, and software for the analysis of social networks.