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.
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Nov 2012 |