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  • Social Network Analysis in Predictive Policing

    Concepts, Models and Methods

    by Mohammad A. Tayebi, Uwe Glässer ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to fully understand criminal collaboration patterns. Co-offending networks—networks of offenders who have committed crimes together—have long been recognized by law enforcement and intelligence agencies as ... Read more

    $103.76 CAD

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  • Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks

    Theory, Methods, and Applications

    Edited by Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen, Garry Robins ...
    Series Book 35 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of ERGMs, including models for univariate, multivariate, bipartite, longitudinal and social-influence ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

  • Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project

    by Bruce K. Friesen ...
    Series Book 17 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    Designing and Conducting Your First Interview ProjectUsing a clear, easily followed approach, Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project helps anyone new to the process develop the skills to conduct the most essential part of social research data collection: the interview. The book also shows how to organize, analyze, and interpret the data.This workbook provides a step-by-step template ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and social simulation modeling. The coverage of these approaches is supported by a discussion of the ... Read more

    $69.65 CAD

  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Social Networks and Health

    Models, Methods, and Applications

    by Thomas W. Valente ...
    Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research is that relationships are of paramount importance in explaining behavior. Because of this, social network analysis offers many exciting tools and techniques for research and practice in a wide variety of medical and ... Read more

    $68.39 CAD

  • Second Generation Biometrics: The Ethical, Legal and Social Context

    Edited by Emilio Mordini, Dimitros Tzovaras ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    While a sharp debate is emerging about whether conventional biometric technology offers society any significant advantages over other forms of identification, and whether it constitutes a threat to privacy, technology is rapidly progressing. Politicians and the public are still discussing fingerprinting and iris scan, while scientists and engineers are already testing futuristic solutions. Second ... Read more

    $104.48 CAD

  • Shifting the Earth

    The Mathematical Quest to Understand the Motion of the Universe

    by Arthur Mazer ...
    Discover how mathematics and science have propelled historyFrom Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment and then on to modern times, Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to Understand the Motion of the Universe takes readers on a journey motivated by the desire to understand the universe and the motion of the heavens. The author presents a thought-provoking depiction of the sociopolitical ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Measuring Scholarly Impact

    Methods and Practice

    Edited by Ying Ding, Ronald Rousseau, Dietmar Wolfram ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a range of fields such as statistical sciences, scientific visualization, network analysis, text mining, and information retrieval. The techniques and tools enable researchers to investigate metric phenomena and to ... Read more

    $104.48 CAD

  • Social Network Analysis

    History, Theory and Methodology

    by Christina Prell ...
    We live in a world that is paradoxically both small and vast; each of us is embedded in local communities and yet we are only a few ′links′ away from anyone else in the world.This engaging book represents these interdependencies′ positive and negative consequences, their multiple effects and the ways in which a local occurrence in one part of the world can directly affect the rest. Then it ... Read more

    $90.71 CAD

  • Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R

    by Nathan G. Swenson ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R is designed to teach readers to use R for phylogenetic and functional trait analyses. Over the past decade, a dizzying array of tools and methods were generated to incorporate phylogenetic and functional information into traditional ecological analyses. Increasingly these tools are implemented in R, thus greatly expanding their impact. Researchers getting ... Read more

    $104.48 CAD

  • Research with Diverse Groups

    Research Designs and Multivariate Latent Modeling for Equivalence

    by Antoinette Y. Farmer, PhD, G. Lawrence Farmer, PhD ...
    Series series Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods
    Social work researchers often conduct research with groups that are diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic background, or age. Consequently, social work researchers must take great care to establish research-design equivalence at all phases of the research process (e.g., problem formulation, research design, sampling, measurement selection, data collection, and data ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD