Social and Financial Networks: Fashions and Evaluation

About this Course

Discover ways to mannequin social and financial networks and their affect on human conduct. How do networks kind, why do they exhibit sure patterns, and the way does their construction affect diffusion, studying, and different behaviors? We’ll deliver collectively fashions and strategies from economics, sociology, math, physics, statistics and laptop science to reply these questions.

The course begins with some empirical background on social and financial networks, and an outline of ideas used to explain and measure networks. Subsequent, we’ll cowl a set of fashions of how networks kind, together with random community fashions in addition to strategic formation fashions, and a few hybrids. We’ll then talk about a collection of fashions of how networks affect conduct, together with contagion, diffusion, studying, and peer influences. You’ll find a extra detailed syllabus right here: http://net.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Networks-On-line-Syllabus.pdf You’ll find a brief introductory videao right here: http://net.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Intro_Networks.mp4

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Social Community
• Recreation Principle
• Community Evaluation
• Community Principle

Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course

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WEEK

1

4 hours to finish

Introduction, Empirical Background and Definitions

Examples of Social Networks and their Affect, Definitions, Measures and Properties: Levels, Diameters, Small Worlds, Weak and Sturdy Ties, Diploma Distributions

WEEK

2

4 hours to finish

Background, Definitions, and Measures Continued

Homophily, Dynamics, Centrality Measures: Diploma, Betweenness, Closeness, Eigenvector, and Katz-Bonacich. Erdos and Renyi Random Networks: Thresholds and Part Transitions

WEEK

3

5 hours to finish

Random Networks

Poisson Random Networks, Exponential Random Graph Fashions, Rising Random Networks, Preferential Attachment and Energy Legal guidelines, Hybrid fashions of Community Formation.

WEEK

4

5 hours to finish

Strategic Community Formation

Recreation Theoretic Modeling of Community Formation, The Connections Mannequin, The Battle between Incentives and Effectivity, Dynamics, Directed Networks, Hybrid Fashions of Selection and Probability.