On this page, you can download the course material of the hands-on workshop for researchers working with the SIENA software that took place January 16-20, 2006, in Groningen. The material is organised by course days.

• Monday
  • Tom Snijders: Introduction to dynamic social network analysis
  • Tom Snijders: Simulation-based statistical inference for evolution of social networks
  
  
• Tuesday
  • Christian Steglich: Co-evolution of social networks and 'behavioural' dimensions
  • Liesbeth Mercken: Dynamics of friendship networks in the process of smoking initiation
  • Michael Schweinberger: Goodness of fit (score tests)
  • Discussion of the estimation algorithm
  
  
• Wednesday
  • Advanced model specification and forward model selection by applying score tests
  • Network composition change and treatment of missing data
  • Arnout van de Rijt: Dynamics of exchange networks. (Presentation in the MEMOS seminar)
  
  
• Thursday
  • Michael Schweinberger: Maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation
  • Michael Schweinberger: Random effects (modelling 'unobserved' heterogeneity)
  • Tom Snijders: Dynamics of undirected networks
  • Multilevel data and meta-analysis of SIENA estimates
  • How to generate ego-alter selection tables from SIENA output
  • Visualisation of networks with Pajek and SoNIA
  
  
• Friday
  • Discussion of participants' SIENA results
  • Interpretation of effects
  • Presentation of SIENA analyses to the public
  • Analysis of signed digraphs
  • Addition of new effects
  • Exponential random graph modelling of non-dynamic networks
  • Future developments

Snijders, Tom A.B. (2005).
Models for Longitudinal Network Data.
Chapter 11 in P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.):
Models and methods in social network analysis.
New York: Cambridge University Press (2005), 215-247.

Steglich, Christian, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Michael Pearson (2004).
Dynamic Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence.
Submitted for publication.

van de Bunt, Gerhard G., Rafael P.M. Wittek, and Maurits C. de Klepper (2005).
The Evolution of Intra-Organizational Trust Networks.
The Case of a German Paper Factory: An Empirical Test of Six Trust Mechanisms.
International Sociology 20:3 (2003), 339-369.

Steglich, Christian, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Patrick West (2005).
Applying SIENA: An illustrative analysis of the co-evolution of adolescents'
friendship networks, taste in music, and alcohol consumption.
Extended version of the article to appear in Methodology 2:1 (2006).

Snijders, Tom A.B, and Baerveldt, Chris (2003).
A Multilevel Network Study of the Effects of Delinquent Behavior on Friendship Evolution.
Journal of Mathematical Sociology 27 (2003), 123-151.

Snijders, Tom A.B., Christian Steglich, and Michael Schweinberger (2005).
Modeling the co-evolution of networks and behavior.
To appear in Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences,
edited by Kees van Montfort, Han Oud and Albert Satorra; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Last updated April 26th, 2006.
If you have any comments on this webpage, please contact Christian Steglich.