Holland, Paul W.; Leinhardt, Samuel - In: Sociological Methods & Research 7 (1978) 2, pp. 227-256
A general or omnibus test of structure in social network data is proposed. The test exploits all of the information contained in the triad census. Analogous to the classical F-test for contrasts among means, the proposed test involves finding a weighting vector which maximizes a test statistic,...