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Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

by WouterdeNooy (Author), Andrej Mrvar (Author), VladimirBatagelj (Author)

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Synopsis

This was the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). Step by step, the book introduces the main structural concepts and their applications in social research with exercises to test the understanding. An application section explaining how to perform the network analyses with Pajek software follows each theoretical section. Pajek software and datasets for all examples are freely available, so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. In addition, each chapter offers case studies for practising network analysis. In the end, the reader has the knowledge, skills, and tools to apply social network analysis in all social sciences, ranging from anthropology and sociology to business administration and history.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 362
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0521602629
ISBN 13: 9780521602624

Media Reviews
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, is an introduction to both network analysis in general and to the Pajek package in particular. It is an excellent book for the beginner: clearly written, well presented, comprehensive and engaging. -Nick Crossley, Sociology
Author Bio
Professor Wouter De Nooy specializes in social network analysis and applications of network analysis to the fields of literature, the visual arts, music and arts policy. His international publications have appeared in Poetics and Social Networks. He is lecturer in methodology and sociology of the arts, Department of History and Arts Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Professor Andrej Mrvar is assistant Professor of Social Science Informatics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has won several awards for Graph Drawings for competitions between 1995 - 2000. He has edited Metodoloski zvezki since 2000. Professor Vladimir Batagelj is professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Member of editorial boards of Informatica and Journal of Social Structure. He has authored several papers in Communications of ACM, Psychometrika, Journal of Classification, Social Networks, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithmica, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Quality and Quantity, Informatica, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization.