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- Social capital:
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The potential benefit of having certain ties or occupying a certain position in the network.
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Title: UCINET for Windows: Software Package for Social Network Analysis
Creation date: 1992 (current incarnation, first appeared in 1983)
Authors: Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Freeman LC
Specialization: General social network analysis
Copyright: Commercial
Type: Program
Size limits: approximately 10,000 nodes
Platforms: Windows
Programming language: Delphi
Orientation: social science data analysis
Introduction
UCINET is a general package for social network analysis. It is mostly used in the social sciences to analyze sociometric survey data. The program features a large number of metrics that can be used to characterize whole networks and positions of nodes within networks. It also features a number of analytical techniques such as finding cohesive subgroups (clustering), blockmodeling, and...
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References
Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Johnson JC (2013) Analyzing social networks. Sage, London
http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet/documentation/quickstart.pdf
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Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G., Freeman, L.C. (2014). UCINET. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_316
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