This data set represents a simulation of an in-school friendship network. The network is named faux.magnolia.high because the school commnunities on which it is based are large and located in the southern US.
data(faux.magnolia.high)faux.magnolia.high is a network object
with 1461 vertices (students, in this case) and 974 undirected edges (mutual
friendships). To obtain additional summary information about it, type
summary(faux.magnolia.high).
The vertex attributes are Grade, Sex, and Race. The
Grade attribute has values 7 through 12, indicating each student's
grade in school. The Race attribute is based on the answers to two
questions, one on Hispanic identity and one on race, and takes six possible
values: White (non-Hisp.), Black (non-Hisp.), Hispanic, Asian (non-Hisp.),
Native American, and Other (non-Hisp.)
If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
When publishing results obtained using this data set, the original authors (Resnick et al, 1997) should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Mark S. Handcock, David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 statnet: Software tools for the Statistical Modeling of Network Data statnet.org.
Resnick M.D., Bearman, P.S., Blum R.W. et al. (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, 278: 823-32.