TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring tendency towards mutuality in a social network
AU - Mandel, Micha
PY - 2000/10
Y1 - 2000/10
N2 - When trying to understand the structure of a social network, the number of mutual dyads is often used to describe tendency toward mutuality (TTM). Only few works, however, deal with measures of TTM and only the work of Rao and Bandyopadhyay [Rao, A.R., Bandyopadhyay, S., 1987. Sankhya 49 Ser. A, pp. 141-188] compares between the different measures. This paper presents the different measures for TTM, their interpretation and their advantages and disadvantages. We also explore the distribution of the number of mutual dyads in graphs which are distributed according to a uniform distribution over certain special spaces. The measures are demonstrated and compared on two independent real data sets.
AB - When trying to understand the structure of a social network, the number of mutual dyads is often used to describe tendency toward mutuality (TTM). Only few works, however, deal with measures of TTM and only the work of Rao and Bandyopadhyay [Rao, A.R., Bandyopadhyay, S., 1987. Sankhya 49 Ser. A, pp. 141-188] compares between the different measures. This paper presents the different measures for TTM, their interpretation and their advantages and disadvantages. We also explore the distribution of the number of mutual dyads in graphs which are distributed according to a uniform distribution over certain special spaces. The measures are demonstrated and compared on two independent real data sets.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0378-8733(00)00027-7
DO - 10.1016/S0378-8733(00)00027-7
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AN - SCOPUS:0042784898
SN - 0378-8733
VL - 22
SP - 285
EP - 298
JO - Social Networks
JF - Social Networks
IS - 4
ER -