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"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
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"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
"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
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The notion of a social network and the methods of social network analysis have attracted considerable interest and curiosity from the social and behavioral science community in recent decades. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The notion of a social network and the methods of social network analysis have attracted considerable interest and curiosity from the social and behavioral science community in recent decades. Read the first page
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Format:Kindle Edition
When first entering into this field, I bought several books that had good reviews and were written by respected authors within the field. Many of them however focussed on specific applications or extensions of theory. Wasserman's book however was the only one that covered not only all the basics of network theory but did so in a fairly straightforward way with minimal 'jargon-isation' (some understanding of terminology is required but is all clearly explained within the book). For anyone starting off in this field, and for anyone after an invaluable compendium of the theory, this is what you're after.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive Combinatrics
14 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback
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.
34 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Not for anyone with Mathematics or Computer Science background
4 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
This book is unbelievably tedious and repetitious. There is very little actual content for the length of the book. It takes nearly 200 pages just to define some very basic terms from graph theory. This might have been fine if the space were taken up by some sort of meaningful discussion on the relevance of these graph theory concepts to sociological studies and theory. The book (possibly the field?) has the flavor of "here's a hammer, now what can we hit with it?".
Would have liked to see a format based on justification of the analytic techniques from sociological principles, or something much much more concise. Nothing much to see here, move on.
Would have liked to see a format based on justification of the analytic techniques from sociological principles, or something much much more concise. Nothing much to see here, move on.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Kindle edition is useless (book is excellent)
28 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is no good mechanism on Amazon to distinguish this unfortunate dichotomy: This excellent resource for those studying networks belongs on your bookshelf even if it can be pedantic.
The Kindle is excellent in many things. Handling books that rely heavily on indices is not one of them.
This book has a table of contents that is too high-level to be useful. However, even in the small print, the indices cover 42 kindle 'pages' on an ipad (kindle on ipad). This is a reference book. This is not start-at-the-beginning sort of book. There are therefore 42 maddening pages of items in the indices without any way (page or place) or referencing them. This is a fault of the Kindle, not the book. However, other books at least have page numbers so that you can approximate. This kindle edition has blank space.
I had to spend the $$ on the print version in addition. Don't waste your money too.
The Kindle is excellent in many things. Handling books that rely heavily on indices is not one of them.
This book has a table of contents that is too high-level to be useful. However, even in the small print, the indices cover 42 kindle 'pages' on an ipad (kindle on ipad). This is a reference book. This is not start-at-the-beginning sort of book. There are therefore 42 maddening pages of items in the indices without any way (page or place) or referencing them. This is a fault of the Kindle, not the book. However, other books at least have page numbers so that you can approximate. This kindle edition has blank space.
I had to spend the $$ on the print version in addition. Don't waste your money too.
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