These 14 networks record weekly sociometric preference rankings from 17 men attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 1956; Data were collected longitudinally over 15 weeks, although data from week 9 are missing.
The men were recruited to live in off-campus (fraternity) housing, rented for them as part of the Michigan Group Study Project supervised by Theodore Newcomb from 1953 to 1956. All were incoming transfer students with no prior acquaintance of one another.
The data set contains two longitudinal networks as network.list.
newcomb.rank is a
network.list object with 14 networks. Each network is complete and the
edge value rank is the preference of the \(i\)th men for the \(j\)th
man from 1 through 16. A 1 indicates first
preference, and no ties were allowed.
newcomb is a network.list object that has binary
edge values but is similar in structure to newcomb.rank
and derived from it. Each network has a tie from the \(i\)th
men to the \(j\)th man if \(i\) had a preference for
\(j\) of 8 or less. Otherwise there is not tie from \(i\)
to \(j\). Note that since these are ranks, the degree of each vertex (and the total number of edges) does not vary over time
data(newcomb)If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau,
and Martina Morris. 2003
statnet: An R package for the Statistical Modeling of Social Networks
https://statnet.org/
and the source should be cited as:
Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006): Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/
Use data(package="netdata") to get a full list of networks.
See the link above. Newcomb T. (1961). The acquaintance process. New York: Holt, Reinhard and Winston.\ Nordlie P. (1958). A longitudinal study of interpersonal attraction in a natural group setting. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan.\ White H., Boorman S. and Breiger R. (1977). Social structure from multiple networks, I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81, 730-780.
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