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Analyzing Social Networks as Stochastic Processes

Stanley Wasserman Department of Applied Statistics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
Pages 280-294 | Received 01 May 1978, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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