Re: Comparing average strength of ties in ego networks of different size
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Kamal, I¡¯m not seeing a problem with 6 being the value you calculate for the ego with just one alter. It is the correct answer. However, consider this. Suppose you are going to regress an ego outcome of social support and other variables. For example, ? H = b0 + b1A + b2F + b3S ? Where A is age of ego, F is gender of ego, and S is the average social support of ego. When you run the regression in Stata or Spss, you can easily include network size as a case weight. This means that the regression will put weight on egos with more alters. ? You could also simply exclude egos with a single alter. ? Steve. ?
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Subject: [UCINET] Comparing average strength of ties in ego networks of different size? ? Dear All, I am looking for a measure which compares ego networks of different size. Here is the scenario postulated step by step: 1)? The egos rate their ties (social support) with their alters on a 0-6 scale.? 2)? We are not interested to know the ties/strength of ties among alters. 3)? We then want to know the average strength of each egos' ties. Here is a problem: So if one ego is connected to to 3 alters with valued ties of say 3, 4, 6 which sums up to 13 and 13/3= 4.333 is the average.. Then there is another ego connected to only one alter with a valued tie of 6 and then 6/1 is 6 which doesn't make sense.? ? How to resolve this problem? Do we have a measure in UCINET VI to address this problem??
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