Social Correlation in Latent Spaces for Complex Networks

• Main Author: CHUA, Freddy Chong Tat
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: social; networks; influence; latent; spaces; correlation; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/104; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This dissertation addresses the subject of measuring social correlation among users within a complex social network. Social correlation is closely related to the measurement of social influence in social sciences. While social influence focuses on the existence of causal influence among users, we ta...