How Many People Do You Know?: Efficiently Estimating Personal Network Size
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How many people do you know?: Efficiently estimating personal network size.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Statistical Association
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0162-1459,1537-274X
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08518