ERIC Number: EJ1443956
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 43
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ISSN: ISSN-0049-1241
EISSN: EISSN-1552-8294
The Effects of Omitting Components in a Multilevel Model with Social Network Effects
Sociological Methods & Research, v53 n4 p1976-2018 2024
Multilevel models are often used to account for the hierarchical structure of social data and the inherent dependencies to produce estimates of regression coefficients, variance components associated with each level, and accurate standard errors. Social network analysis is another important approach to analysing complex data that incorporate the social relationships between a number of individuals. Extended linear regression models, such as network autoregressive models, have been proposed that include the social network information to account for the dependencies between persons. In this article, we propose three types of models that account for both the multilevel structure and the social network structure together, leading to network autoregressive multilevel models. We investigate theoretically and empirically, using simulated data and a data set from the Dutch Social Behavior study, the effect of omitting the levels and the social network on the estimates of the regression coefficients, variance components, network autocorrelation parameter, and standard errors.
Descriptors: Social Networks, Intergroup Relations, Population Groups, Sociometric Techniques, Social Environment, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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