Social network analysis: modelling the Southern Women and the terrorist Noordin Top networks
Modelling relations among members of a group has become very popular and important. Binary
relations are information-poor, so additional information about group members is often valuable.
I give two examples, one of a "dense" network of relations among women in the US in the 1930s,
and one of a "sparse" network, the Noordin Top terrorist network.
A particular difficulty with network models which has limited their usefulness in the past is
discussed and resolved in two published papers, in Social Networks and JRSSA
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