Identifying 'friends' in an objective manner

(Kobe University) Dr. Teruyoshi Kobayashi of Kobe University and his team developed a new method for identifying individuals that have essential connections between them -- what they call 'significant ties'. Dr. Kobayashi says: " The point is that we need to distinguish between the contact events that could happen by chance and the events that would not happen without a significant relationship between two individuals. " Their findings were published in Nature Communications on January 15.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news