Advanced RSiena workshop

June 24, 2025

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Room 1ST-B.103

Programme

  Multivariate networks.

• Slide presentations:
  • Analyzing the Joint Dynamics of Several Networks (slides)
    Analyzing the Joint Dynamics of Several Networks (handout, for making notes)

• Examples:
  • Alona Labun, Rafael Wittek, and Christian Steglich (2016).
    The co-evolution of power and friendship networks in an organization.
    Network Science, 4, 364-384.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2016.7
  • Sadaf Hashimi and David R. Schaefer (2024). The co-evolution of friendship and power relations in a men's prison unit.
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 40, 33-74.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-022-09558-5

• Literature :
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Alessandro Lomi, and Vanina Jasmine Torló (2013).
    A model for the multiplex dynamics of two-mode and one-mode networks, with an application to employment preference, friendship, and advice.
    Social Networks, 35, 265-276.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2012.05.005.
    In Figure 2, Y_{ia} and Y_{ja} should be interchanged.

Two-mode networks, and their co-evolution with one-mode networks

• Slide presentations :
  • The dynamics of two-mode networks (slides)
    The dynamics of two-mode networks (handout, for making notes)
  • The co-evolution of one-mode and two-mode networks (slides)
    The co-evolution of one-mode and two-mode networks (handout, for making notes).

• Scripts :
  • g160_Onemode_Twomode.r script for the example in the slides using the Glasgow Teenage Friends and Lifestyle Study data.
  • RscriptSienaBipartite.R an example of co-evolution of a one-mode and several two-mode networks, using the same data set.
    This is an old script, written before the current high standards of convergence were followed.
• Examples :

  • Per Block, Lauren C. Heathcote and Stephanie Burnett Heyes (2018).
    Social interaction and pain: An arctic expedition.
    Social Science and Medicine, 196, 47-55.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.028

  • Kayo Fujimoto, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Thomas W. Valente (2018).
    Multivariate dynamics of one-mode and two-mode networks: Explaining similarity in sports participation among friends.
    Network Science, 6, 370-395.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2018.11

  • David Hachen, Cheng Wang, Brandon Sepulvado, and Omar Lizardo (2024). Generators or diffusers? Examining differences in the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple types of foci. Social Networks, 77, 151-165.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.02.004

  • Alessandro Lomi and Christoph Stadtfeld (2014).
    Social Networks and Social Settings: Developing a Coevolutionary View.
    KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 66, 395-415.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11577-014-0271-8.

• Literature :
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Alessandro Lomi, and Vanina Jasmine Torló (2013).
    A model for the multiplex dynamics of two-mode and one-mode networks, with an application to employment preference, friendship, and advice.
    Social Networks, 35, 265-276.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2012.05.005.
    In Figure 2, Y_{ia} and Y_{ja} should be interchanged.

  Testing; Score-type tests .




• Slide presentations:
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Tests in RSiena, in particular Score-type tests. (slides)
    Tests in RSiena, in particular Score-type tests. (handout, for making notes)
    
• Literature :
  • Schweinberger, Michael (2012). Statistical modeling of network panel data: Goodness of fit.
    British Journal of Statistical and Mathematical Psychology, 65, 263-281.
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8317.2011.02022.x.

    (Develops the score-type test available in function siena07 by using fix=TRUE, test=TRUE in setEffect.)

  • Sara Geven, Jan O. Jonsson, and Frank van Tubergen (2017). Gender differences in resistance to schooling: the role of dynamic peer-influence and selection processes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 2421-2445.
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0696-2

    (An example where the score-type test was used.)

  • Marianne Hooijsma, Gijs Huitsing, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Andreas Flache and René Veenstra (2020). Multidimensional similarity in multiplex networks: friendships between same- and cross-gender bullies and same- and cross-gender victims. Network Science, 8(1), 79-96.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2020.1

    (Another example where the score-type test was used.)

  Problems with convergence: various kinds .

• Slide presentations:
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, What to do in RSiena if estimation is difficult. (slides)
    What to do in RSiena if estimation is difficult. (handout, for making notes)
    

  Internal effect parameters and interaction effects

• Slide presentations:
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Internal Effect Parameters and Interaction Effects in RSiena. (slides)
    Internal Effect Parameters and Interaction Effects in RSiena. (handout, for making notes)
    (The first part is for this topic.)

  Elementary effects and contextual effects

• Slide presentations:
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Internal Effect Parameters and Interaction Effects in RSiena. (slides)
    Internal Effect Parameters and Interaction Effects in RSiena. (handout, for making notes)
    (The second part is for this topic.)

  Some effects that are little known, but which may be useful for analyzing two-mode networks.

• Slide presentations:
  • Tom A.B. Snijders, Some effects for categorical covariates. (slides)
    Some effects for categorical covariates. (handout, for making notes)
    

1. If time permits:

   Parameter interpretation: semi-standardized parameters: entropy-based approach to explained variation.

   • Slide presentations :
     • Effect Sizes for Stochastic Actor-oriented Models (slides)
       Effect Sizes for Stochastic Actor-oriented Models (handout, for making notes).

   • Scripts :
     • vdB_effsize.R script for the example in the slides ("Question 3"), also using the van de Bunt students data set.
     • Not related to semi-standardized parameters or entropy:
       A useful script for parameter interpretation for effects of actor variables on networks (see Section 13.3 in the manual):
       SelectionTables.r.

2. If time permits:

   Non-directed networks.

   • Slide presentations :
     • Analysing the dynamics of non-directed networks (slides)
       Analysing the dynamics of non-directed networks (handout, for making notes).

   • Scripts :
     • RscriptSienaSymmetric.R a brief example of modeling a non-directed network, using the s50 data set.
     • Vervet_Monkeys3.R script for the example in the slides using Sebastian Sosa's data set of Vervet Monkeys.

   • Examples :
     • Christèle Borgeaud, Sebastian Sosa, Cédric Sueur, Redouan Bshary, and Erica van de Waal (2016).
       Intergroup Variation of Social Relationships in Wild Vervet Monkeys: A Dynamic Network Approach.
       Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 915.
       DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00915
     • Leonardo Corbo, Raffaele Corrado, and Simone Ferriani (2016).
       A New Order of Things: Network Mechanisms of Field Evolution in the Aftermath of an Exogenous Shock.
       Organization Studies, 37, 323-348.
       DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615613373
     • Sebastian Sosa, Peng Zhang, and Guénaël Cabanes (2017).
       Social networks dynamics revealed by temporal analysis: An example in a non-human primate (Macaca sylvanus) in "La Forêt des Singes".
       American Journal of Primatology, 79(6), e22662.
       DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22662.
   • Literature :
     • Snijders, Tom A.B. and Pickup, Mark (2017).
       Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for Network Dynamics.
       Pp. 221-247 in Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
       DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.10.
       Also available in OUP Handbooks-online.
       (Gives a general introduction, and also explains the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model for non-directed networks.)

3. If time permits:

   Valued networks (two kinds: networks with weak and strong ties; signed networks).

   • Slide presentations :
     • Analysing the dynamics of valued networks (slides)
       Analysing the dynamics of valued networks (handout, for making notes).

   • Scripts :
     • vdB_orderedNewer2345.R script for the example in the slides, also using the van de Bunt students data set.
   • Examples :
     • Timon Elmer, Zsófia Boda, and Christoph Stadtfeld (2017).
       The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties.
       Network Science, 5, 278-307.
       DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2017.20

     • Zsófia Boda, Bálint Néray, and Tom A. B. Snijders (2020).
       The Dynamics of Interethnic Friendships and Negative Ties in Secondary School: The Role of Peer-Perceived Ethnicity.
       Social Psychology Quarterly, 83, 342-362.
       DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0190272520907594
       Multivariate and also multilevel (uses sienaBayes).
     • Joao R. Daniel, Antonio J. Santos, Carla Fernandes and Brian E. Vaughn (2019). Network dynamics of affiliative ties in preschool peer groups. Social Networks, 57, 63-69.
       DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.12.005
       Signed graphs.

     And....

   • The stocnet suite at GitHub !
   • The RSiena help mailing list !