Course Details

The course is composed of three sessions taking place in three days. The first illustrates some major social network concepts and theories. The second part is aimed at clarifying several network metrics applicable at network-, group- and individual-level of analysis. The third part of the course presents tools for hypotheses testing as well as more recent developments in network analysis such as Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs). The course will be strongly based on the use of social network software for data and visual analyses.