An assessment of preferential attachment as a mechanism for human sexual network formation.

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Published in Proc Biol Sci on June 07, 2003

Authors

James Holland Jones1, Mark S Handcock

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. jameshj@stat.washington.edu

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