R: Newcomb's Fraternity Networks

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## Newcomb's Fraternity Networks

### Description

These 14 networks record weekly sociometric preference rankings from 17 men attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 1956; Data were collected longitudinally over 15 weeks, although data from week 9 are missing.

The men were recruited to live in off-campus (fraternity) housing, rented for them as part of the Michigan Group Study Project supervised by Theodore Newcomb from 1953 to 1956. All were incoming transfer students with no prior acquaintance of one another.

The data set contains two longitudinal networks as `network.list`.

`newcomb.rank` is a `network.list` object with 14 networks. Each network is complete and the edge value `rank` is the preference of the ith men for the jth man from `1` through `16`. A `1` indicates first preference, and no ties were allowed.

`newcomb` is a `network.list` object that has binary edge values but is similar in structure to `newcomb.rank` and derived from it. Each network has a tie from the ith men to the jth man if i had a preference for j of 8 or less. Otherwise there is not tie from i to j. Note that since these are ranks, the degree of each vertex (and the total number of edges) does not vary over time

### Usage

    data(newcomb)

### Details

Use `data(package="netdata")` to get a full list of networks.

### Licenses and Citation

If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.

When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:

Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 statnet: An R package for the Statistical Modeling of Social Networks
http://statnet.csde.washington.edu/ and the source should be cited as:

Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006): Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/

### Source

http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/ucinet/ucidata.htm#newfrat

### References

See the link above. Newcomb T. (1961). The acquaintance process. New York: Holt, Reinhard and Winston.\ Nordlie P. (1958). A longitudinal study of interpersonal attraction in a natural group setting. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan.\ White H., Boorman S. and Breiger R. (1977). Social structure from multiple networks, I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81, 730-780.

### See Also

network, sna

### Examples

    data(newcomb)

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