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Triad Census

The triad census counts how many of a directed network's three-actor subgroups fall into each of the 16 possible types of triad, providing a compact fingerprint of the network's local structure. Introduced by Paul Holland and Samuel Leinhardt in 1970, it is the standard way to test structural theories — balance, clustering, transitivity, ranked clusters — by comparing the observed distribution of triad types against what a random network would produce.

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Triad Census of Directed Networks
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sociology
  • Holland, P. W., & Leinhardt, S. (1970). A method for detecting structure in sociometric data. American Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 492–513. · DOI 10.1086/224954
  • Davis, J. A. (1967). Clustering and structural balance in graphs. Human Relations, 20(2), 181–187. · DOI 10.1177/001872676702000206
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Same method familyBlockmodelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Often confused withDyadic Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSocial Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyStructural Balance Theorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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