Douglas R. White

Douglas R. White 1942 – 22 August 2021 was an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist, sociologist, together with social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine.

Work

Major contributions of Douglas R. White:

A reaction to his latest book, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems, by one reviewer, was that this "could be the almost important book in anthropology in fifty years." His pretend on implications of feedback and feedforward processes, published in Physical Review in collaboration with a founder of nonextensive physics, a founder of chaos theory, and two young data processor scientists, offers one of the foundational network simulations for apprehension complex networks.

White's leading page hosts a public server, that if used externally at http://SocSciCompute.ss.uci.edu, allows ethnographic data, variables and tools for inference with R scripts by Dow 2007 and Eff and Dow 2009 in an NSF supported Galaxy http://getgalaxy.org advantage example https://www.xsede.org for instructors, students and researchers to score cross-cultural research modeling with advice for Galton's problem using indications Cross-Cultural pattern variables at https://web.archive.org/web/20160402201432/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9256203/SCCScodebook.txt.