# Network Analysis **Entity class:** Analytic method family **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Network analysis** studies entities and the relationships among them. It includes social, organizational, communications, transportation, infrastructure, biological, and other network forms. Counterterrorism applications ask how people, resources, knowledge, places, events, and systems connect and how those connections change over time. ## Relationships - **human-network specialization:** [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]]. - **investigative form:** [[wiki/Link Analysis|Link Analysis]] and [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]]. - **computational methods:** [[wiki/Graph Analytics|Graph Analytics]] and [[wiki/Dynamic Network Analysis|Dynamic Network Analysis]]. - **counterterrorism use:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]] and [[wiki/Network Disruption|Network Disruption]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]