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Hi Deena,

You might also want to take a look at Pavel Krivitsky's paper on 
adjusting for network size and composition using ERGMs:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117581/

best,
Martina

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Ott Toomet wrote:

> ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear Deena,
> I found Lee et al (2006) quite insightful.
> 
> Lee, S. H.; Kim, P.-J. & Jeong, H. Statistical properties of sampled networks Physical Review E, 2006, 73, 016102
> 
> Cheers,
> Ott
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> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:10 AM, D.M. Abulfottouh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Can anyone please recommend references on comparing social networks. I am particularly interested in understanding
> the limitations on comparing networks such as what network metrics are for example size sensitive so cannot be
> compared across networks, or can I compare networks (of tweets for example) collected from two  time periods of
> different lengths? 
> 
> Thank you
> Best,
> Deena
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