STA 450/650 Theory and Methods for Social Network Analysis
Homeworks (Approximate) course outline Applied papers to read Course project

(Approximate) course outline

  • Intro. Why do we do this?
  • Graph theory and random graphs
  • Graph theory and random graphs
  • Graph attributes: centrality; applied paper; code
  • Small world networks; slides
    • Some additional reading: Bollobas Chapter 10.
    • Bollobás, Belá. “The diameter of random graphs.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 267.1 (1981): 41-52.
    • Watts, Duncan J., and Steven H. Strogatz. “Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’networks.” nature 393.6684 (1998): 440-442.
  • Power law degree distributions
    • Clauset, Aaron, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, and Mark EJ Newman. “Power-law distributions in empirical data.” SIAM review 51.4 (2009): 661-703.
    • Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Network Science, chapters 4 and 5.
  • Exponential Random Graph Models (Intro and MLE)
    • Lab 2: Blitzstein, Joseph, and Persi Diaconis. “A sequential importance sampling algorithm for generating random graphs with prescribed degrees.” Internet mathematics 6.4 (2011): 489-522.
  • Exponential Random Graph Models (Bayes and failures)
    • Papers (Instability: Schweinberger, Inconsistency: Shalizi and Rinaldo)
    • All possible ERGM terms
  • Bayesian ERGMs and Structural Equivalence
    • Bayesian ERGM: Caimo and Frield 2011
    • Structural Equivalence: Chapter 9 of Wasserman and Faust.
  • Stochastic Equivalence and intro to stochastic blockmodels slides
  • Stochastic blockmodels (MLE and Bayes)
    • Holland, Paul W., Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, and Samuel Leinhardt. “Stochastic blockmodels: First steps.” Social networks 5, no. 2 (1983): 109-137.
    • Snijders, Tom AB, and Krzysztof Nowicki. “Estimation and prediction for stochastic blockmodels for graphs with latent block structure.” Journal of classification 14, no. 1 (1997): 75-100.
  • Stochastic blockmodels and graphons (theory) code
    • Rohe, Karl, Sourav Chatterjee, and Bin Yu. “Spectral clustering and the high-dimensional stochastic blockmodel.” The Annals of Statistics (2011): 1878-1915.
    • What is a graphon? by Daniel Glasscock
    • Airoldi, Edo M., Thiago B. Costa, and Stanley H. Chan. “Stochastic blockmodel approximation of a graphon: Theory and consistent estimation.” In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 692-700. 2013.
    • Chan, Stanley and Airoldi, Edo. “A CONSISTENT HISTOGRAM ESTIMATOR FOR EXCHANGEABLE GRAPH MODELS”.
  • Stochastic blockmodels and belief propagation
  • “Network regression” and other decompositions
    • D Krackhardt (1988). ``Predicting with networks: Nonparametric multiple regression analysis of dyadic data.’’
    • Butts (2008). ``Social network analysis with sna.’’
  • Revisiting why we do this — applied examples* Spring Break
  • Testing for independence
    • Volfovsky and Hoff (2015). “Testing for nodal dependency in relational data matrices”
    • Fosdick and Hoff (2015). “Testing and Modeling Dependencies Between a Network and Nodal Attributes”
  • Latent Space Models (MLE)
    • Hoff, Raftery and Handcock (2002). ``Latent space approaches to social network analysis’’. JASA
    • Hoff (2005). ``Bilinear mixed effects models for dyadic data’’
  • Bayesian approaches to latent space models
    • Hoff (2007). ``Modeling homophily and stochastic equivalence in symmetric relational data’’
  • Bayesian approaches to latent space models slides
    • Hoff (2016). “Dyadic data analysis with amen”
  • Fixed rank nomination schemes, etc.
    • Hoff, Fosdick, Volfovsky and Stovel (2013). ``Likelihoods for fixed rank nomination networks’’ (Network Science)
  • Feasible covariance estimation
  • Causal inference in a networked world
  • (only if we have time) Exchangeability and Aldous-Hoover theorem
    • Aldous, David. “Representations for partially exchangeable arrays of random variables”. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 11, no. 4 (1981): 581-598.

STA 450/650 Theory and Methods for Social Network Analysis

  • STA 450/650 Theory and Methods for Social Network Analysis
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