Using multiple network analytic tools for a single social network

A variety of data analytic network tools are used to study the structure of a social network where the properties of these tools rest on specific conceptualizations of some aspect of structure. Further, these tools have, in structural terms, ill-defined operationalizations and algorithmic details. As a result, they can lead to distinct characterizations of structure. The appropriate task in using multiple methods is not the use them all to see what they converge on, but to select the structural properties of critical interest and use the tools most appropriate for those properties.

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