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.

  • 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:09 Apr 2024 05:45
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/42454
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