| Abstract:
Using actual data from evaluation of an NIH-funded Clinical Translational Sciences Institute, the presenter will introduce basic concepts of social network analysis, including cohesion, betweenness, brokerage, partitions, vectors, 1- and 2-mode networks, and data layout. The presenter will demonstrate these concepts with Pajek, a freely available software package, for performing these analyses. Thus, attendees will obtain an orientation to this software, which should allow them to perform basic analyses, and also to facilitate further self-study. Finally, the presenter will contrast social network analysis with cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling, and demonstrate how these tools can be used to enrich data presentation obtained from social network analysis.
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