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Macrostructure From Microstructure: Generating Whole Systems From Ego Networks, Jeffrey A. Smith
Macrostructure From Microstructure: Generating Whole Systems From Ego Networks, Jeffrey A. Smith
Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications
This paper presents a new simulation method to make global network inference from sampled data. The proposed simulation method takes sampled ego network data and uses Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) to reconstruct the features of the true, unknown network. After describing the method, the paper presents two validity checks of the approach: the first uses the 20 largest Add Health networks while the second uses the Sociology Coauthorship network in the 1990’s. For each test, I take random ego network samples from the known networks and use my method to make global network inference. I find that my method …