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Mathematical sociology. Mathematical Bridge, or officially Wooden Bridge, is an arch bridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. Part of a series on.
Patrick Doreian is an American mathematician and social scientist, whose specialty is network analysis. His specific research interests include blockmodeling, social structure and network processes. [1] Doreian, professor emeritus from the University of Pittsburgh in sociology and statistics, was during his research career focused on social ...
Fararo has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Social Networks, Sociological Forum, and Sociological Theory. Fararo has been both an originator and an explicator of ideas and methods relating to the use of formal methods in sociological theory.
James Samuel Coleman. James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. [1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of ...
In mathematical or statistical modeling a threshold model is any model where a threshold value, or set of threshold values, is used to distinguish ranges of values where the behaviour predicted by the model varies in some important way. A particularly important instance arises in toxicology, where the model for the effect of a drug may be that ...
Critical mass (sociodynamics) In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. The point at which critical mass is achieved is sometimes referred to as a threshold within the threshold ...
John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.He is the author of five books: Thinking Through Statistics, Thinking Through Methods, Thinking Through Theory, Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, the latter two of which have both won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA ...
The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Communications in Statistics. International Statistical Review. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.