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i vaguely recall - i could be wrong - that proctor and loomis had
a measure they called 'cohesion' in their piece on the 'analysis
of sociometric data' in jahoda, deutch and cook's research methods
in social relations, one of the editions, about 1951.

regards, al
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Annica Sandström wrote:

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> I am about to perform a comparative analysis of five different networks regarding their level of cohesion. Three of them contain about 20 actors each, the other two 40. Density as well as distanced based cohesion will be used. From what I learned, comparing cohesion between networks of different sizes is somewhat problematic since a low density within a large network might indicate a higher level of cohesion than a higher density within a small network?
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