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Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks. / Aitkin, Murray; Vu, Duy; Francis, Brian.
In: Social Networks, Vol. 38, 07.2014, p. 74-87.

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Aitkin, M, Vu, D & Francis, B 2014, 'Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks', Social Networks, vol. 38, pp. 74-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2014.03.002

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Aitkin, M., Vu, D., & Francis, B. (2014). Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks. Social Networks, 38, 74-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2014.03.002

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Aitkin M, Vu D, Francis B. Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks. Social Networks. 2014 Jul;38:74-87. Epub 2014 Apr 2. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.03.002

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Aitkin, Murray ; Vu, Duy ; Francis, Brian. / Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks. In: Social Networks. 2014 ; Vol. 38. pp. 74-87.

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title = "Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks",
abstract = "This research evaluates the identification of group structure in social networks through the latent class model and a new Bayesian model comparison method for the number of latent classes. The approach is applied to a well-known network of women in Natchez Mississippi. The latent class analysis reproduces the group structure of the women identified by the original sociologists.",
keywords = "social groups, Latent class model, two mode network, natchez women, bayesian model comparison",
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volume = "38",
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