Florentine              package:SNAData              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Graphs of relation data between Padgett's Florentine families and
     data frame of attribute variables.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(business)
     data(marital)
     data(florentineAttrs)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     'business': graphNEL object with 16 nodes and 15 undirected edges

     'marital': graphNEL object with 16 nodes and 20 undirected edges

     'florentineAttrs': data frame with 16 rows and 3 columns

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The graphs contain the following relation information between the
     16 Florentine families.  The data are reported in Tables B.5 and
     B.6, respectively, in Wasserman and Faust (1999).

     'business' business relations between families 

     'marital' marital relations between families 

     'florentineAttrs' contains the following attribute variables for
     the 16 Florentine families.  The data are reported in Table B.7 in
     Wasserman and Faust (1999).

     'Wealth' net wealth, measured in 1427, coded in thousands of lira

     'NumberPriorates' number of seats on the Civic Council held
     between  nd 1344 

     'NumberTies' number of business or marriage ties in the total
     network data set containing 116 families

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1999). _Social Network Analysis_.
     Cambridge University Press. New York.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Kent, D. (1978). _The Rise of the Medici: Faction in Florence,
     1426-1434_. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

     Padgett, J.F. (1987). Social mobility in hieratic control systems.
     Unpublished manuscript.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(business)
     data(marital)
     data(florentineAttrs)

