Hi,
I am working with R’s sna package to do a brokerage analysis of a social
network. Basically, I would like to know whether there is a possibility
to retrieve the brokered nodes.
I have a dataset of 244 nodes which is subdivided into two communities.
For theoretical reasons I’m currently only interested in brokers between
the two communities, in the present case “representatives” and
“gatekeepers” (Gould & Fernandez, 1989). The brokerage command in sna
generates a wealth of informative output, but for the purposes of my
analysis I would like to have a closer look at the specific set of nodes
that are connected by the brokers, above all the nodes to which a
gatekeeper connects.
In standard brokerage notation I am mainly interested in the receiver,
i.e. the “A” that sits to the right in the two-path B -> A -> A (B is
the sender from community 1, A in the middle of the notation is the
gatekeeper in community 2, A to the right is the receiver). Is there a
way to display this information in the sna package?
I’ve resorted to a couple of manual analyses using the original matrices
but I don’t seem to be getting the same results in terms of aggregate
values and I have therefore refrained from making more detailed
statements about the nodes, their attributes, etc.
Thanks!
Tom
--
Thomas Haeussler
Postdoctoral researcher
Institute of Communication and Media Studies
Fabrikstrasse 8
University of Bern
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 (0)31 631 38 47
Fax: +41 (0)31 631 43 40
mailto: [email protected]
______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
