Kinship analytic methods
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Kinship analytic methods
Douglas R. White, Klaus Hamberger and Michael Houseman
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[edit] first ideas
DRW : This chapter centers on (1) some of the more technical material is to move here from the Kinship, Class, and Communities article, (2) current Pajek stuff of DRW and the Pajek macros of Hamberger and Houseman, (3) the controlled simulation in R that is so important for inferential statistics and substantive model testing and (4) the new java kinship network analysis program (name not yet decided upon) written by Klaus, from the TIPP Kinship and computing project, that should be finished by early summer.
[edit] second ideas
MH : We were thinking that while it would of course be good to mention recent work such as your R stuff and our Puck thing (as well as the Pajek advances, and other particular research), the main thrust of the article should be to try to lay down the vocabulary and the conceptual building blocks for the next 5-10 years research in this field, that is, providing accessible (and formal) definitions, discussions and illustrations of things like matrimonial ring, matrimonial network, matrimonial component and bicomponent, core, kernel, relinkings, second-order networks, P-, Ore-, Tip- graphes, ring depth and width, and so on. The idea is that things have advanced to a sufficient state of stability that we should be able to do this, a real reference text, and if not us who have been working on the problem for ages, then who?
What do you think? And how do you suggest we go about this so that we can back-and-forth it sufficiently. Shall we try to sketch out not so much a first draft as a first battle plan (what concepts, what vocabulary, etc), send it to you? Tell me. Also, how long a paper do you think that we should aim for?
[edit] Response
DW : In Kinship, Class, and Communities I have been laying down tracks for this too -- two tracks in fact, one on the importance of concepts that yield methods and new understandings, the other on substantive results. Quite a bit of my outline could be moved into our joint article, I like the laying the foundations for new work idea as the focus of that article. To focus my article on substantive results also means explicating why and how these have resulted from formal concepts and methods. So there will be a good intersection I think between my writing about how we got to here, overlapping in the present when where we are going from here, Feel free to borrow from my text in the wiki.
[edit] Length
DW : I quote from Carrington: This is intended to be a comprehensive handbook, the various chapters providing a basic orientation to the literature in all of the major areas of SNA. We intend that it will become the standard reference source in the field, serving the needs of researchers, potential researchers, and advanced students. The book will have about 40 chapters, each of up to 9,000 words in length.
