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Testing
Hypotheses
We discuss methods of testing hypotheses in a network context.
Topics
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Autocorrelation
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Permutation / randomization
methods
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QAP correlation and regression
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Relational contingency tables
Readings
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Feld, SL (1997). Structural embeddedness and stability
of interpersonal. Social Networks, 19, 91-95 [^pdf]
- Borgatti, S. and Feld, S. 1994. How to test the strength of weak
ties theory. Connections [html]
- Krackhardt, D. 1988. "Predicting with networks: Nonparametric
multiple regression analysis of dyadic data." Social Networks.
10:359-381. [pdf]
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Tutorials
Exercises
Data
Slides
See also
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Theory & Method
- Baker, F. and Hubert, L. 1981. The analysis of social
interaction data. Sociological Methods & Research 9(3):
339-361.
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Dekker, David, David Krackhardt, and Tom A. B. Snijders.
In Press.
"Sensitivity of MRQAP Tests to Collinearity and Autocorrelation
Conditions." Psychometrika. [pdf]
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Faust, Katherine and A. Kimball Romney. 1985.
The effect of Skewed Distributions on matrix permutation tests.
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology,
38:152-160.
- Hubert, L. & Schultz, L. 1976. Quadratic
assignment as a general data analysis strategy. British Journal
of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology 29:190-241.
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Krackhardt, D. 1987. “QAP Partialling as a test
of spuriousness”. Social Networks 9: 171-186. [pdf]
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Smouse,
Peter E., Jeffery C. Long, and Robert R. Sokal (1986), "Multiple
Regression and Correlation Extensions of the Mantel Test of Matrix
Correspondence," Systematic Zoology, 35 (4), 627-32.
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N. Mantel, “The Detection of Disease Clustering and
a Generalized Regression Approach.” Cancer Research 27 (1967): 209-220.
Application
- Barley, S. 1990. The alignment of
technology and structure through roles and networks.
Administrative Science Quarterly 35: 61-103.
- Boster, J. 1986. Exchange of Varieties and
Information between Aguaruna manioc cultivators. American
Anthropologist 88:428-436.
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- Borgatti, S.P. and Cross, R. 2003. A Relational View of Information
Seeking and Learning in Social Networks. Management Science.
49(4): 432-445.[pdf]
- Burkhardt, M. 1994. Social interaction
effects following a technological change: A longitudinal
investigation. Academy of Management Journal 37(4): 869-898.
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Val Burris, “Interlocking Directorates and Political
Cohesion among Corporate Elites.” American Journal of Sociology 111 (2005): 249-283.
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