Essays on Bayesian Inference for Social Networks

This thesis presents Bayesian solutions to inference problems for three types of social network data structures: a single observation of a social network, repeated observations on the same social n ...

[1]  G. Y. Wong,et al.  Bayesian Models for Directed Graphs , 1987 .

[2]  Johan Koskinen.  Bayesian Analysis of Perceived Social Networks , 2002 .

[3]  S. Wasserman,et al.  Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis , 2005 .

[4]  Marijtje A. J. van Duijn,et al.  Simulation for Statistical Inference in Dynamic Network Models , 1997 .

[5]  Ove Frank,et al.  Composition and structure of social networks , 1997 .

[6]  Tom A. B. Snijders,et al.  Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Exponential Random Graph Models , 2002, J. Soc. Struct..

[7]  Krzysztof Nowicki,et al.  Exploratory statistical analysis of networks , 1992 .

[8]  S. Wasserman.  Analyzing Social Networks as Stochastic Processes , 1980 .

[9]  S. Wasserman.  A Stochastic Model for Directed Graphs with Transition Rates Determined by Reciprocity , 1980 .

[10]  Sylvia Richardson,et al.  Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice , 1997 .

[11]  William H. Batchelder,et al.  Consensus analysis of three‐way social network data , 1997 .

[12]  Sharon L. Milgram,et al.  The Small World Problem , 1967 .

[13]  P. Killworth,et al.  Informant accuracy in social network data IV: a comparison of clique-level structure in behavioral and cognitive network data , 1979 .

[14]  Ronald L. Wasserstein,et al.  Monte Carlo: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications , 1997 .

[15]  David Lindley,et al.  Introduction to Probability and Statistics from a Bayesian Viewpoint , 1966 .

[16]  H. Jeffreys,et al.  Theory of probability , 1896 .

[17]  Julian Besag,et al.  Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Statistical Inference , 2002 .

[18]  G. C. Tiao,et al.  Bayesian inference in statistical analysis , 1973 .

[19]  P. Erdös.  Some remarks on the theory of graphs , 1947 .

[20]  J. Coleman,et al.  The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians , 1957 .

[21]  P. Pattison,et al.  Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis: Interdependencies and Social Processes: Dependence Graphs and Generalized Dependence Structures , 2005 .

[22]  Roger Th. A. J. Leenders,et al.  MODELS FOR NETWORK DYNAMICS - A MARKOVIAN FRAMEWORK , 1995 .

[23]  P. Killworth,et al.  Informant accuracy in social network data III: A comparison of triadic structure in behavioral and cognitive data , 1979 .

[24]  Kathleen M. Carley,et al.  Positive Affectivity and Accuracy in Social Network Perception , 1999, Motivation and Emotion.

[25]  Mark S. Granovetter.  The Strength of Weak Ties , 1973, American Journal of Sociology.

[26]  Johan Koskinen.  Bayesian Analysis of Cognitive Social Structures with Covariates , 2002 .

[27]  Tiziana Casciaro,et al.  Seeing things clearly: social structure, personality, and accuracy in social network perception , 1998 .

[28]  S. Wasserman,et al.  Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences , 1994 .

[29]  Tom A. B. Snijders,et al.  Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model , 1999, Comput. Math. Organ. Theory.

[30]  Stanley Wasserman,et al.  Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications , 1994 .

[31]  L. Tierney.  Markov Chains for Exploring Posterior Distributions , 1994 .

[32]  Jacob L. Moreno,et al.  Who shall survive? : foundations of sociometry, group psychotherapy, and sociodrama , 1953 .

[33]  Ove Frank,et al.  Statistical inference in graphs , 1971 .

[34]  S. Chib,et al.  Marginal Likelihood From the Metropolis–Hastings Output , 2001 .

[35]  Philippa Pattison.  Social Cognition in Context: Some Applications of Social Network Analysis , 1994 .

[36]  Samuel Leinhardt,et al.  A dynamic model for social networks , 1977 .

[37]  T. Snijders,et al.  A multilevel network study of the effects of delinquent behavior on friendship evolution , 2003 .

[38]  T. Snijders.  Stochastic actor-oriented models for network change , 1996 .

[39]  F. Stokman,et al.  Evolution of sociology freshmen into a friendship network , 2003 .

[40]  P. Pattison,et al.  9. Neighborhood-Based Models for Social Networks , 2002 .

[41]  Gerrit G. van de Bunt,et al.  Friends by choice. An actor-oriented statistical network model for friendship networks through time , 1999 .

[42]  S. Wasserman,et al.  Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis: An Introduction to Random Graphs, Dependence Graphs, and p * , 2005 .

[43]  Daniele Bondonio,et al.  Predictors of accuracy in perceiving informal social networks , 1998 .

[44]  T. Newcomb.  The acquaintance process , 1961 .

[45]  Alan M. Frieze,et al.  Random graphs , 2006, SODA '06.

[46]  J. Bernardo.  Reference Posterior Distributions for Bayesian Inference , 1979 .

[47]  David Krackhardt,et al.  Cognitive social structures , 1987 .

[48]  T. Snijders.  The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics , 2001 .

[49]  P. Pattison,et al.  New Specifications for Exponential Random Graph Models , 2006 .