Introduction to Social Network Methods
by Robert A. Hanneman, Mark Riddle
Publisher: University of California, Riverside 2005
Number of pages: 322
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This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. Our goal in preparing this book is to provide a very basic introduction to the core ideas of social network analysis, and how these ideas are implemented in the methodologies that many social network analysts use.
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