Hierarchical longitudinal models of relationships in social networks.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC3979311 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
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Hierarchical longitudinal models of relationships in social networks.
Paul Sudeshna S O'Malley A James AJ
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics 20131001 5
Motivated by the need to understand the dynamics of relationship formation and dissolution over time in real-world social networks we develop a new longitudinal model for transitions in the relationship status of pairs of individuals ("dyads"). We first specify a model for the relationship status of a single dyad and then extend it to account for important inter-dyad dependencies (e.g., transitivity - "a friend of a friend is a friend") and heterogeneity. Model parameters are estimated using Bay ...[more]
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