Week 4

Dyads, triads, and network dynamics

Prepare

Note📚

📖 Revise the syllabus

📖 Revise key network concepts notes (from week 1) and slideshow (from week 2)

📖 Read Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network

Participate

Note👥

📉 Slideshow:

Dyads, triads, and network effects

Practice

Note💻

🧮 Measuring dyadic processes

🧮 Measuring triadic processes

Perform

Note📝

This week, we will not work on real world business problems and datasets.

Ponder

Note🤔

Dyadic and Triadic Structure

Chapter 13 (“Dyads”) and 14 (“Triads”) from Wasserman, S., & Faust K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 7 (“Dyads and Triads”) from Rawlings C. et al. (2023). Online Appendix to Network Analysis: Integrating Social Network Theory, Method, and Application with R Cambridge University Press.

Exponential Random Graph Models

Chapter 33 (“Random Graph Models”) from Levey et al. (2024). The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Sage.

Network Dynamics

Chapter 34 (“Network Dynamics”) from McLevey et al. (2024). The Sage Handbook od Social Network Analysis.