Do Friends-of-Friends Become Friends?

Mantzaris, Alexander Vassilios and Higham, Desmond (2012) Do Friends-of-Friends Become Friends? In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Social scientists have hypothesised that new social contacts arise preferentially between those who currently share neighbours: friends-of-friends have an increased chance of becoming friends. Such a triadic closure eect was quantied through an evolving network model in [Bistability through triadic closure, P. Grindrod, D. J. Higham and M. C. Parsons, Internet Mathematics, to appear]. Here we show how this mathematical model can be used in order to develop a statistical test for the presence of triadic closure in a large scale evolving network. This new tool has the potential to help our understanding of online social interaction and also to predict future network behaviour.

ORCID iDs

Mantzaris, Alexander Vassilios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9138-1878 and Higham, Desmond ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6635-3461;
  • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:42454
    Dates:
    Date
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    5 November 2012
    Published
    Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
    Department:Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:04 Jan 2013 14:33
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 16:36
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/42454
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