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Original scientific paper

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 id orcid.org/0000-0002-0240-9446 ; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia


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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Social network analysis; relations; local optimization; clustering

Hrčak ID:

150276

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/150276

Publication date:

30.12.1996.

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