fauxmesa_edges: Goodreau's Faux Mesa High School (Edgelist)

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Goodreau's Faux Mesa High School (Edgelist)

Description

This data set (originally found in as a network object in the ergm package) represents a simulation of an in-school friendship network. The network is named "Faux Mesa High" because the school community on which it is based is in the rural western US, with a student body that is largely Hispanic and Native American.

Usage

fauxmesa_edges

Format

A data frame with 203 rows and 2 columns:

from

Outgoing node

to

Receiving node

...

Source

The data set is based upon a model fit to data from one school community from the AddHealth Study, Wave I (Resnick et al., 1997). It was constructed as follows:

A vector representing the sex of each student in the school was randomly re-ordered. The same was done with the students' response to questions on race and grade. These three attribute vectors were permuted independently. Missing values for each were randomly assigned with weights determined by the size of the attribute classes in the school.

The following ergm formula was used to fit a model to the original data:

 ~ edges + nodefactor("Grade") + nodefactor("Race") +
nodefactor("Sex") + nodematch("Grade",diff=TRUE) +
nodematch("Race",diff=TRUE) + nodematch("Sex",diff=FALSE) +
gwdegree(1.0,fixed=TRUE) + gwesp(1.0,fixed=TRUE) + gwdsp(1.0,fixed=TRUE) 

The resulting model fit was then applied to a network with actors possessing the permuted attributes and with the same number of edges as in the original data.

The processes for handling missing data and defining the race attribute are described in Hunter, Goodreau & Handcock (2008).

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