Exploratory_blockmodeling

Exploratory blockmodeling

Exploratory blockmodeling

Add article description

Exploratory blockmodeling is an (inductive) approach (or a group of approaches) in blockmodeling regarding the specification of an ideal blockmodel.[1]: 234  This approach, also known as hypotheses-generating, is the simplest approach, as it "merely involves the definition of the block types permitted as well as of the number of clusters."[2] With this approach, researcher usually defines the best possible blockmodel, which then represent the base for the analysis of the whole network.[3]

This approach is usually based on:[4]: 284 

The opposite approach is called a confirmatory blockmodeling.

References

  1. [1]
    Doreian, Patrick; Batagelj, Vladimir; Ferligoj, Anuška (2004). Generalized Blockmodeling (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84085-6.
  2. [2]
    WEBER, M. (2007), “Introducing blockmodeling to input-output analysis”. 16th International I-Ot Conf, Istanbul, Turkey.
  3. [3]
    Faust, Katherine; Wasserman, Stanley (1992). "Blockmodels: Interpretation and evaluation". Social Networks. 14: 5–61.
  4. [4]
    Nooy, Wouter de; Mrvar, Andrej; Batagelj, Vladimir (2018). Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Revised and Expanded Edition for Updated Software. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-47414-6.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Exploratory_blockmodeling, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.