Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures Export

@article{citeulike:3281613, abstract = {We examine methods for reducing respondent burden in evaluating alter-alter ties on a set of network structural measures. The data consist of two sets, each containing 45 alters from respondent free lists: the first contains 447 personal networks, and the second 554. Respondents evaluated the communication between 990 alter pairs. The methods were (1) dropping alters from the end of the free-list, (2) randomly dropping alters, (3) randomly dropping links, and (4) predicting ties based on transitivity. For some measures network structure is captured with samples of less than 20 alters; other measures are less consistent. Researchers should be aware of the need to sample a minimum number of alters to capture structural variation.}, author = {Mccarty, Christopher and Killworth, Peter D. and Rennell, James}, booktitle = {Special Section: Advances in Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models}, citeulike-article-id = {3281613}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2006.12.005}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VD1-4N0GDTW-1/2/1328bdc0dfe3990eb081924a402e86dc}, doi = {10.1016/j.socnet.2006.12.005}, journal = {Social Networks}, keywords = {burden, design, measurement, network, personal, respondent, social}, month = {May}, number = {2}, pages = {300--315}, posted-at = {2008-09-17 19:17:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2006.12.005}, volume = {29}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3281613 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3281613 N2 - We examine methods for reducing respondent burden in evaluating alter-alter ties on a set of network structural measures. The data consist of two sets, each containing 45 alters from respondent free lists: the first contains 447 personal networks, and the second 554. Respondents evaluated the communication between 990 alter pairs. The methods were (1) dropping alters from the end of the free-list, (2) randomly dropping alters, (3) randomly dropping links, and (4) predicting ties based on transitivity. For some measures network structure is captured with samples of less than 20 alters; other measures are less consistent. Researchers should be aware of the need to sample a minimum number of alters to capture structural variation. IS - 2 JF - Social Networks EP - 315 TI - Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures VL - 29 T2 - Special Section: Advances in Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models SP - 300 KW - burden KW - design KW - measurement KW - network KW - personal KW - respondent KW - social AU - Mccarty, Christopher AU - Killworth, Peter AU - Rennell, James PY - 2007/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2006.12.005 ER -