Galesburg2: Columbia University Drug Study data 2

In mbojan/isnar: Introduction to Social Network Analysis with R

Description

Data from Columbia University Drug Study on diffusion of medical innovation in the form of a new drug (gammanym). Its a network of 31 medical doctors connected with friendship or discussion links. Vertex attribute "adoption" specifies time of first prescription of the new drug.

Format

Directed network (class 'igraph') with edge attributes:

discussion

logical, discussion link

friendship

logical, friendship nomination

and vertex attributes:

adoption

numeric, time of adoption

Source

Pajek datasets http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/Galesburg2.htm

References

Coleman, J.S., E. Katz, H. Menzel (1966) "Medical Innovation. A Diffusion Study", Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill

Examples

if(require(igraph, quietly = TRUE)) {
  plot(Galesburg2, edge.arrow.size=.3)
}

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