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According to Linton Freeman (2004), modern social network analysis has four main characteristics:
What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read…if they can’t even fit inside the building? ( Derek Zoolander , in the movie Zoolander , after looking at a miniature model of a school building.)
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Luke, D.A. (2015). Random Network Models. In: A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23883-8_10
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