2 Stochastic Actor-Based Models for Network Dynamics

Research utilizing the perspective of social networks can shed important light on political processes, as is illustrated by the other articles in this issue and also the special issue Social Networks and American Politics of American Politics Research (Heaney and McClurg, 2009). This perspective offers some complications for statistical analysis, however. A network approach is so useful because it can represent the interdependence between political actors (see Huckfeldt, 2009) – but statistical modeling is commonly based on independence assumptions. The challenge in statistical modeling of social network data is to represent the dependencies between network ties so that valid inferences can be obtained and misspecification avoided; and, by doing so, to provide methods that allow researchers to test hypotheses about these interdependencies.

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