Documentos de Académico
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mediante medidas de
composición y estructura de las
redes personales
National Science Foundation, Award No. BCS-0417429
Chris McCarty
University of Florida
Jose Luis Molina y Miranda Lubbers
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Esta presentación tiene cuatro
partes
1. Una visión de conjunto de la
investigación en ciencias sociales
2. Una visión de conjunto de las redes
sociales
3. Una introducción al análisis de redes
sociocéntricas
4. Una introducción al análisis de redes
personales
5. Una presentación de Egonet
• La mayor parte de la investigación en ciencias
sociales está diseñada para predecir actitudes,
conductas o condiciones de personas a partir de
sus características.
• Las evaluaciones realizadas por cada persona pueden ser usadas para construir una matriz que represente las relaciones entre los miembros de la clase
• Las celdas que interseccionan dos personas representan la valoración realizada
• David dice que se socializa con Faith a un nivel 2
• Faith dice que se socializa con David a un nivel 1
Visualización de la red
FAMILY
WORK
Dentro de cada grupo se conocen todos
CLUB
FAMILY
WORK
Hay también algunas relaciones entre grupos
CLUB
WORK
FAMILY
A veces las redes personales
pueden ser complejas
Introducción a la recolección de
datos de redes personales
1. Identificar una población
This ego has told us some things about each alter. For example, Joydip is
a 25 year old male she met in 1994 that she is very close to.
And we can add these to our model
Age
Education
Number of
Income cigarettes
smoked per day
Altage
Altsmoke
Duration
Independent variables Dependent variable
Joydip_K 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 . . .
Shikha_K 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . .
Candice_A 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . .
Brian_N 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . .
Barbara_A 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 . . .
Matthew_A 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . .
Kavita_G 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 . . .
Ketki_G 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
The same Ego also evaluated the ties between their alters. We end up with
an adjacency matrix for each ego. We can use this to calculate structural
measures.
Now we can create a set of
structural variables
• Number of components (COMP)
• Average betweenness centrality
(BETWEEN)
• Closeness centralization (CLOSCENT)
• Number of alters in network core
(CORESIZE)
And these can be added to the model
Age
Education
Number of
Income cigarettes
smoked per day
Altage
Altsmoke Dependent variable
• Closeness Centrality –An alter is highly close-central if he or she is connected by short paths to
many other alters.
• Betweenness Centrality –An alter is highly between-central to the extent he or she lies on many
geodesics (shortest paths) between alters.
• Components – A set of alters who are connected to one another directly or indirectly.
Available at www.mdlogix.com
Egonet design
• Egonet is written in Delphi and runs on a
Windows platform
• There are two programs:
1. Administrator program to create a study and
assemble a questionnaire
2. Client program to collect data and analyze it
Example data file from Egonet
ID Sex Age Average tie Proportion of Average alter Components Cliques
strength females age
7 M 19 3 0.29 18.4 1 11
Egonet outputs data across all the respondents and assembles it into one file.
Notice that the data set has data about ego (sex, age), compositional data
(Proportion of females, average alter age), and structural data (components,
cliques). This data set would be difficult to produce without this software.
Egonet can also visualize the
personal network of a single Ego
Barcelona Argentine 81
Barcelona Moroccan 70
Barcelona Dominican 64
Barcelona Gambian 26
Barcelona Equatorial Guinean 9
Barcelona Senegalese 43
New York City Puerto Rican 86
New York City Dominican 97
New York City Columbian 34
Miami Cuban 12
Miami Haitian 13
Kansas Mexican 13
Total 548
Procedure
• Respondents answered a set of questions about
themselves, including an acculturation scale
• Respondents free-listed 45 alters given the
following definition:
“You know them and they know you by sight or by
name. You have had some contact with them in
the past two years, either face-to-face, by
phone, mail or e-mail, and you could still contact
them if you had to.”
Procedure (continued)
• Respondents answered twelve questions about
each alter
• Respondents evaluated all 990 possible ties
between alters rating the probability that the
alters talk to each other independently of the
respondent
• Structural variables were calculated using ties
that the respondent was sure existed
• We conducted a qualitative interview with each
respondent using a visualization of their network
Data Cleaning
• In some cases we questioned the
authenticity of the data
• We viewed each of the 486 visualizations
and listened to the interviews.
• These were scaled on a scale of 0-5
reflecting our assessment of their
authenticity
Percent Distribution of Authenticity Scores