This page gives the program of the SIENA workshop that will take place January 8-11, 2007, in Groningen, with some of the course materials.

Location of the workshop is room A2 of the Academy Building in the city centre of Groningen. Except on Monday, sessions start at 9:00 and except on Wednesday, they end at 17:00, with an ample lunch break from 12:30-14:00.

Teachers are Tom Snijders and Christian Steglich, perhaps with some other contributors.

• Monday
  • Walk-in welcome starts at 10 am, lecture starts at 10.45.
  • Introduction to dynamic social network analysis
  • Simulation-based statistical inference for social network dynamics
  • At 18:30, there will be a joint dinner (own expense) at Humphrey's Restaurant
  
  
• Tuesday
  • Examples of applications; e.g., Friendship networks through time, or
    Co-evolution of social networks and 'behavioural' dimensions
  • Data requirements
  • Network delineation within a larger surrounding network
  • The estimation algorithm (Method of Moments, Robbins-Monro procedure)
  • Additional material on miscellaneous SIENA topics
  
  
• Wednesday
  • Model specification, procedures for forward model selection based on score tests
  • Network composition change and treatment of missing data
  • Structurally determined values (network regions that cannot change)
  • Presentations by John Light & David Schaefer and David Knoke & Xi Zhu
  • Workshop ends early at 15.30, feel free to join us for this other presentation in a local seminar series
  
  
• Thursday
  • New estimation methods (maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation) and how to choose between methods
  • Dynamics of non-directed networks
  • Multilevel data and meta-analysis of SIENA estimates
  • How to generate ego-alter selection tables from SIENA output .
  • Workshop ends about 17:00
  
  
• Topics that still need to be distributed over the workshop days, depending on participants' interests:
  • Discussion of participants' SIENA results
  • Interpretation of effects
  • Communication of SIENA analyses to a wider audience
  • Non-longitudinal network data: Exponential random graph models
  • 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.
A preprint is here.

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 (2007).
Modeling the co-evolution of networks and behavior.
Chapter 3 in Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences,
edited by Kees van Montfort, Han Oud and Albert Satorra; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.

Steglich, Christian, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Michael Pearson (2007).
Dynamic Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence.
Submitted for publication.

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

van de Bunt, Gerhard G., Marijtje A.J. van Duijn, and Tom A.B. Snijders (1999).
Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model.
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 5 (1999), 167-192.

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.

van Duijn, Marijtje A.J., Evelien P.H. Zeggelink, Mark Huisman, Frans Stokman, and Frans Wasseur (2003).
Evolution of sociology freshmen into a friendship network.
Journal of Mathematical Sociology 27 (2003), 153-191.

Last updated January 9th, 2007.
If you have any comments on this webpage, please contact Christian Steglich.