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Social network analysis using Stata

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  • Thomas Grund

    (Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden)

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The field of social network analysis is one of the most rapidly growing fields of the social sciences. Social network analysis focuses on the relationships that exist between individuals (or other units of analysis) such as friendship, advice, trust, or trade relationships. Network analysis is concerned with the visualization and analysis of network structures, as well as with the importance of networks for individuals’ propensities to adopt different kinds of behaviors. Up until now such analyses have only been possible to perform using specialized software for network analysis. This tutorial introduces the so-called nwcommands, a software suite with over 80 Stata commands for social network analysis. The software includes commands (and dialog boxes) for importing, exporting, loading, saving, handling, manipulating, replacing, generating, visualizing, and animating networks. It also includes commands for measuring various properties of the networks and the individual nodes, for detecting network patterns and measuring the similarity of different networks, as well as advanced statistical techniques for network analysis including MR-QAP and ERGM.

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  • Thomas Grund, 2015. "Social network analysis using Stata," United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2015 21, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:usug15:21
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    1. Rachel Baker, 2018. "Understanding College Students’ Major Choices Using Social Network Analysis," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 59(2), pages 198-225, March.
    2. Nadia von Jacobi & Vito Amendolagine, 2021. "What Feeds on What? Networks of Interdependencies between Culture and Institutions," DEM Working Papers 2021/13, Department of Economics and Management.
    3. Grosskurth, Philipp, 2019. "MNE and where to find them: An intertemporal perspective on the global ownership network," Ruhr Economic Papers 825, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    4. Nadia von Jacobi & Vito Amendolagine, 2022. "What Feeds on What? Networks of Interdependencies between Culture and Institutions," Working Papers 11, SITES.
    5. Christian Cox & Akanksha Negi & Digvijay Negi, 2022. "Risk-Sharing Tests with Network Transaction Costs," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 5/22, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.

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