In this chapter we describe patterns that occur in the structure of social networks, represented as graphs. We describe two main classes of properties, static proper- ties, or properties describing the structure of snapshots of graphs; and dynamic properties, properties describing how the structure evolves over time. These properties may be for unweighted or weighted graphs, where weights may rep- resent multi-edges (e.g. multiple phone calls from one person to another), or edge weights (e.g. monetary amounts between a donor and a recipient in a po- litical donation network).
['Mary McGlohon', 'Leman Akoglu', 'Christos Faloutsos']
Statistical Properties of Social Networks