Absent Ties in Social Networks, their Treatments, and Blockmodeling Outcomes.
A Žnidaršič, P Doreian… - Advances in Methodology …, 2012 - search.ebscohost.com
An absent tie is one for which we have no information regarding its nature. Absent ties for a
network is a set of such ties. This lack of information can be present anywhere in network
data and has the potential to compromise the results of all network analytic tools. To assess
this impact, we used real networks and based simulations on them by introducing varying
amounts of absent ties. They were treated with four treatments of absent ties. Blockmodeling,
using structural equivalence, was applied to the known networks and then to every treated …
network is a set of such ties. This lack of information can be present anywhere in network
data and has the potential to compromise the results of all network analytic tools. To assess
this impact, we used real networks and based simulations on them by introducing varying
amounts of absent ties. They were treated with four treatments of absent ties. Blockmodeling,
using structural equivalence, was applied to the known networks and then to every treated …
