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Alters as species Predicting personal network size from contact diaries.pdf

Social Networks 45 (2016) 78–88 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Social Networks journal homepage: /locate/socnet Alters as species: Predicting personal network size from contact diaries Tso-Jung Yen a,?, Yang-chih Fu b, Jing-Shiang Hwang a a Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan b Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan article info Article history: Available online 7 January 2016 Keywords: Personal networks Ego and alters Contact diaries Alter accumulation curves Mixture of Dirichlet processes abstract Like wildlife species in an ecological system, members within a personal network (or alters) constantly shift and often remain hard to count. Previous studies often estimated the size of such personal networks using information given by a focal person (or ego), who names a list of friends and acquaintances, or someone known or related, that meet certain speci?ed criteria. In a search for alternative methods, we estimate the number of alters using contact diaries that help reveal active and comprehensive interac- tions, which enable us to predict personal network size from a longitudinal perspective. By exploring contact frequencies between ego and alters, we propose a modeling approach based on species accu- mulation curves from ecology. Under this approach, the contact frequency between ego and alter often turns out to be a mixture of binomial distributions, and the number of alters with whom ego may make contact in the future is assumed to follow a speci?ed discrete distribution. We estimate the model with the Bayesian nonparametric method, in which the distribution of contact probabilities is assumed to be a mixture of Dirichlet processes. We then demonstrate this approach with a data set containing 48 con- tact diaries collected over three months and discuss how such an ecological analogy may enrich social network studies. ? 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction As important as estimating the population size

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