TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1979//
TI  - Predictability of social connections over time
JO  - Social networks
A1  - Hammer, Muriel
SP  - 165
EP  - 180
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
N2  - A developed theory of social networks would potentially provide predictive and explanatory models for social processes at the most general level. The paper contributes to such a theory by elaborating one basic proposition: that social connections attract each other as a regular function of network parameters such as [`]structural strength' (number of common links) and [`]distance' (length of minimal path of linkage). The proposition is tested on longitudinal data from three locality-based networks.<p /> 
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SN  - 0378-8733
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(79)90005-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -