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  • Stability of centrality measures in valued networks regarding different actor non-response treatments and macro-network structures
    Žnidaršič, Anja, 1981- ; Ferligoj, Anuška ; Doreian, Patrick
    Social network data are prone to errors regardless their source. This paper focuses on missing data due to actor non-response in valued networks. If actors refuse to provide information, all values ... for outgoing ties are missing. Partially observed incoming ties to non-respondents and all other patterns for ties between members of the network can be used to impute missing outgoing ties. Many centrality measures are used to determine the most prominent actors inside the network. Using treatments for actor non-response enables us to estimate better the centrality scores of all actors regarding their popularity or prominence. Simulations using initial known blockmodel structures based on three most frequently occurring macro-network structures: cohesive subgroups, core-periphery models, and hierarchical structures were used to evaluate the relative merits of the treatments for non-response. The results indicate that the amount of non-respondents, the type of underlying macro-structure, and the employed treatment have an impact on centrality scores. Regardless of the underlying network structure, the median of the 3-nearest neighbors based on incoming ties performs the best. The adequacy (or not) of the other non-response treatments is contingent on the network macro-structure.
    Vir: Network science. - ISSN 2050-1242 (Vol. 6, no. 1, Mar. 2018, str. 1-33)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2018
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 35255645
    DOI

vir: Network science. - ISSN 2050-1242 (Vol. 6, no. 1, Mar. 2018, str. 1-33)

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