SIENA activities and workshops



7th conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2010), Zürich, September 15, 2010.

Workshop The Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data using Siena, taught by Johan Koskinen and Tom Snijders.

Workshop materials

  1. Lecture notes:
    Tom A.B. Snijders and Johan K. Koskinen, An Introduction to Stochastic Actor Oriented Models (transparencies)
    An Introduction to Stochastic Actor Oriented Models (handout format)
  2. R reference card.
  3. Ruth M. Ripley and Tom A.B. Snijders, Manual for Siena 4.0.
  4. R scripts:
    1. RscriptDataFormat.R with some basic information about R, networks, data formats etc;
      with an example data file arclistdata.dat.
    2. s50 data set, a 50-actor excerpt from the Teenage Friends and Lifestyle Study data set of West et al.: description and data set (longitudinal, 3 waves, networks and behaviour);
    3. RscriptSienaVariableFormat.R for how to specify data as variables in RSiena, and specify the model;
    4. RscriptSienaRunModel.R for how to carry out the estimation and look at the results;
    5. RscriptSienaBehaviour.R for how to specify models for dynamics of networks and behaviour;
    6. RscriptSienaMultiple.R for how to specify models for dynamics of multiple networks;
      manufactured data set (longitudinal, 2 waves, 2 networks);
    7. vdB_tt.R an example of testing time heterogeneity, using the van de Bunt data set;
    8. van de Bunt students data description and data set (longitudinal)
    9. Assignment about homophily and transitivity, using one of the school classes of Andrea Knecht;
    10. RscriptASNAassignement.R
      Script for the assignment.
    11. description and data set of the data (longitudinal, networks and behavior) collected by Andrea Knecht.


There exists a User Group for Siena and StOCNET to exchange information and seek technical advice on using the Siena and StOCNET software to analyze network data.
The address is http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/stocnet/.

At R-forge there is an email discussion list for help concerning RSiena.


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