Social Network Analysis with sna
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Modern social network analysis—the analysis of relational data arising from social systems—is a computationally intensive area of research. Here, we provide an overview of a software package which provides support for a range of network analytic functionality within the R statistical computing environment. General categories of currently supported functionality are described, and brief examples of package syntax and usage are shown.
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