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Statistical Analysis Of Social Network Change, Teresa D. Schmidt
Statistical Analysis Of Social Network Change, Teresa D. Schmidt
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We explore two statistical methods that infer social network structures and statistically test those structures for change over time: regression-based differential network analysis (R-DNA) and information theory-based differential network analysis (I-DNA). RDNA is adapted from bioinformatics and I-DNA employs reconstructability analysis. Both methods are used to analyze Medicaid claims data from one-year periods before and after the formation of the Health Share of Oregon Coordinated Care Organization (CCO). We hypothesized that Health Share’s CCO formation would be followed by several changes in the healthcare delivery network.
Application of R-DNA and I-DNA to claims data involves three steps: (a) the inference …