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Optimizational Approach to Blockmodeling
Anuska Ferligoj
; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Patrick Doreian
; Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Vladimir Batagelj
orcid.org/0000-0002-0240-9446
; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sažetak
The goal of blockmodeling is to reduce a large, potentially incoherent network to a smaller comprehensible structure that can be interpreted more readily. Blockmodeling, as an empirical procedure, is based on the idea that units in a network can be grouped according to the extent to which they are equivalent, under some meaningful definition of equivalence. In the paper an optimizational approach to blockmodeling is discussed. Methods where a set of observed relations are fitted to a pre-specified blockmodel are also presented.
Ključne riječi
Social network analysis; relations; local optimization; clustering
Hrčak ID:
150276
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.1996.
Posjeta: 849 *