Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis Edited by Peter J. Carrington, John Scott, Stanley Wasserman Models and Methods in Social Networks Analysis presents the most important developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that have appeared during the 1990s. Intended as a complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications . It is a collection of original articles by leading methodologists reviewing recent advances in their particular areas of network methods. Reviewed are advances in network management, network sampling, the analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodeling, the analysis of diffusion through networks, the analysis of affiliation or "two-mode" networks, the theory of random graphs, dependence graphs, exponential families of random graphs, the analysis of longitudinal network data, graphic techniques for exploring network data, and software for the analysis of social networks. Peter J. Carrington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His main teaching and research interests are in the criminal and juvenile justice systems, social networks, and research methods and statistics… He is currently doing research on police discretion, criminal and delinquent careers and networks, and the impact of the Youth Criminal Justice Act on the youth justice system in Canada. John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. An active member of the British Sociological Association, he served as its president from 2001 to 2003. He has written more than fifteen books, including Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes (1997), Social Network Analysis(1991 and 2000)… With James Fulcher, he is the author of the leading introductory textbook Sociology (1999 and 2003)… Stanley Wasserman is Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University. He has done research on methodology for social networks for thirty years. He has co-authored with Katherine Faust Social Networks Analysis: Methods and Applications, published in 1994 in this series of Cambridge University Press, and co-edited with Joseph Galaskiewicz Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1994)… His work is recognized by statisticians, as well as social and behavioral scientists, worldwide…