10. Settings in Social Networks: A Measurement Model
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methodology
- Vol. 33 (1), 307-341
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0081-1750.2003.00134.x
Abstract
A class of statistical models is proposed that aims to recover latent settings structures in social networks. Settings may be regarded as clusters of vertices. The measurement model is based on two assumptions. (1) The observed network is generated by hierarchically nested latent transitive structures, expressed by ultrametrics, and (2) the expected tie strength decreases with ultrametric distance. The approach could be described as model-based clustering with an ultrametric space as the underlying metric to capture the dependence in the observations. Bayesian methods as well as maximum-likelihood methods are applied for statistical inference. Both approaches are implemented using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.Keywords
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