Statistical Network Modeling Group

This is website http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/stat_net_mod.htm.

This website contains the announcements of an informal group meeting irregularly in Nuffield College about the topic of statistical models for social networks. Anybody interested is welcome.

Organized by Paulina Preciado Lopez, Johan Koskinen, and Tom Snijders.

Meetings in TT 2012:

Meetings in HT 2012:
Meetings in MT 2011:
Meetings in TT 2011:
  • Week 2: No meeting,
    (Note: Tom speaks at the Nuffield Sociology Seminar, Wednesday May 11, 5pm, about Micro mechanisms and macro structures of social networks.)
  • Week 4: Tuesday May 24, 2.30-4.00 pm Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Amber Thomas.
  • Week 6: Tuesday June 7, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Tom Snijders about models for multiple dependent networks.
  • Week 8:Tuesday June 21, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Steve Manion about his network study of Wikipedia.
Meetings in HT 2011:
  • Week 2: No meeting,
  • Week 4: (Sunbelt conference)
  • Week 6: Tuesday Februart 22, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Charlotte Greenan.
  • Week 8.
Meetings in MT 2010:
  • Week 2: Workshop on RSiena programming.
  • Week 4: Tuesday November 2, 4.00-5.30 pm. Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Ainhoa de Federico (University of Toulouse - II Le Mirail) and Clair Bidart (CNRS, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, Aix-en-Provence, France):
    Analysis of personal networks I
  • Week 6: Tuesday November 16, 2.30-4.00 pm . Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Miranda Lubbers
    Analysis of personal networks II
  • Week 8: Tuesday November 30, 2.30-4.00 pm Nuffield College, Conference Room L5.
    Josh Lospinoso. Analysis of relational events and time-stamped network data.
Meetings in TT 2010:
(Names of presenters are not unchangeable; topics to be added.)
  • Week 2: Tuesday May 4, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Josh Lospinoso.
  • Week 4: Tuesday May 18, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Johan Koskinen.
  • Week 6: Tuesday June 1, 2.00-3.30 pm (changed time!). Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Ruth Ripley.
  • Week 8: no meeting.

Meetings in HT 2010:

  • Week 2: Tuesday January 26, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Tom Snijders: Models for dynamics of non-directed networks.
    This will be mainly about Section 3 of the paper Actor-Based Models for Network Dynamics (recently submitted).
  • Week 4: Tuesday February 9, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Paulina Preciado Lopez: Distance matters: exploratory analysis of the distance dependency of adolescent friendship dynamics.
  • Week 6: Tuesday February 23, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Krista Gile: Inference for Hidden Populations Based on Network Sampling
  • Week 8: Tuesday March 9, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Josh Lospinoso: Assessing and correcting parametrizations for time heterogeneity in stochastic actor-based models.
Meetings held in MT 2009:
  • Week 0: Tuesday October 6, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Peng Wang (University of Melbourne): the design and source code of PNet.
  • Week 2: Tuesday October 20, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Philippa Pattison (University of Melbourne): Some thoughts on specifying and estimating exponential random graph models for large networks.
  • Week 4: Tuesday November 3, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Issues related to Network-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling.
    Part 1: Amber Tomas: sensitivity of estimators to network and sampling features;
    Part 2: Krista Gile: a new estimator based on a network model.
  • Week 6: Tuesday November 17.
    Statistical Network Modeling : this was a full-day workshop starting 9.00.
    Nuffield College, Seminar Room.
    The programme can be seen here.
  • Week 8: Tuesday December 1, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Viviana Amati: Estimation in Actor-Oriented Network Models by Simulated Generalized Method of Moments.

Meetings held in TT 2009:

  • Week 2: Monday May 4, 3.30-5.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    Johan Koskinen: Extreme actors in ERGMs - towards a model-based centrality measure?
    This talk is based on tech report MelNet_Techreport_08_05.pdf.
  • Week 4: Tuesday May 19, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    The meeting will start with the discussion about Johan's paper (see above), for which we had no time on May 4.
    Next in this meeting, Bernie Hogan will talk about Real-time network layouts, community detection and alter sampling in personal interviews: Strategies and techniques using the Facebook API.
    A related working paper is A Comparison of On and Offline Networks through the Facebook API. This talk and discussion will be about data collection methods rather than statistical modeling issue, but the organizers like to have a broad definition of this group.
  • Week 6: Tuesday June 2, 2.30-4.00 pm. Nuffield College, Meeting Room L5.
    There will be three topics:
    1. Bridge sampling to estimate likelihood ratios in ERGMs and/or stochastic actor-oriented dynamic networks models (Krista Gile);
    2. Modeling settings and meeting opportunities in stochastic actor-oriented dynamic networks models (Tom Snijders);
    3. Social diffusion models (Griff Rees).