***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Kristie, I'm not sure if that's what you are looking for, but one accepted measure of (local) density is the clustering coefficient such as defined by Watts and Strogatz, e.g. in Duncan J. Watts. Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 1999. Regards, Christoph On 21.05.2010 08:51, Kristie Ogilvie wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > I am requesting any literature references on the most accepted measures of > cohesiveness or density. Additionally, in UCInet, is there almost common > analysis > function that I can run I have several networks, in which I would like to > compare cohesiveness and/or density measures in quantitative form. > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an > email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE > SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.