Freeman               package:SNAData               R Documentation

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

     Graphs of relation data for Freeman's EIES researchers and data
     frame of attributes.

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

     data(acqTime1)
     data(acqTime2)
     data(messages)
     data(freemanAttrs)

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

     'acqTime1': graphNEL object with 32 nodes and 650 directed,
     weighted edges

     'acqTime2': graphNEL object with 32 nodes and 759 directed,
     weighted edges

     'messages': graphNEL object with 32 nodes and 460 directed,
     weighted edges

     'freemanAttrs': data frame with 32 rows and 4 columns

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

     The graphs contain the following relation information between
     Freeman's EIES researchers.  The data are reported in Tables
     B.8-B.10, respectively, in Wasserman and Faust (1999).

     'acqTime1' valued acquaintanceship relations measured at nuary
     1978, the start of the study; 4 = close personal friend, 2 =
     person I've met, 1 = person I've heard of but not met, known name
     or no reply

     'acqTime2' valued acquaintanceship relations measured at ptember
     1978, the end of the study; 4 = close personal friend, 2 = person
     I've met, 1 = person I've heard of but not met, known name or no
     reply 

     'messages' number of messages sent from one researcher to another 

     'freemanAttrs' contains the following attribute variables for the
     32 researchers.  The data are reported in Table B.11 in Wasserman
     and Faust (1999).

     'OriginalID' original ID, as numbered in Freeman and Freeman
     (1979)

     'Citations' number of citations in 1978

     'DisciplineCode' discipline, coded 1,2,3 

     'Discipline' discipline name

_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:

     Freeman, S.C. and Freeman, L.C. (1979). The networkers network: A
     study of the impact of a new communications medium on sociometric
     structure. Social Science Research Reports No.46. Irvine, CA:
     University of California.

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

     data(acqTime1)
     data(acqTime2)
     data(messages)
     data(freemanAttrs)

