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Borgatti,

Thank you very much for your help! The problem is solved.

Actually I regisitered in the Yahoo Ucinet user group last week, but until
now I am still waiting for the reply for entry permission.

Jeff
Grenoble Ecole de Management
France

>From: Steve Borgatti <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: E-I index function of Ucinet
>Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:49:04 -0500
>
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>Since UCINET is a commercial product, and since UCINET has its own list, I
>think it is best not to use SOCNET for what are essentially technical
>support questions. For information on joining the UCINET list please visit
>www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm .
>
>If you ask your question there, you will learn that if your attribute
>filename contains spaces, you must enclose it in quotes, as in
>
> "test 1 group" col 1
>
>This says, Open a file called "test 1 group" and read the first variable in
>that file.
>
>You will also find out that the network matrix should contain 1s and 0s
>rather than 1s and missing values.
>
>(ok, so I snuck in some technical support -- it just seemed efficient.)
>
>Steve Borgatti
>Org Studies, Boston College
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>
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> >From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> >Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:28 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [SOCNET] E-I index function of Ucinet
> >
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> >Greeting.
> >
> >Dimitirs and I are using the E-I index function of Ucinet to analyze a
>two
> >mode data about profs of computer science and electrical eng at UC
>Berkeley
> >and Stanford. We try to model relationship of co-foundation, advisory,
>and
> >board director of the companies in and around silicon valley.
> >
> >For the concept E-I index, we referred Krackhardt, D and Stern, R N
>(1988)
> >Informal Networks and Organizational Crises, Social Psychology Quarterly,
> >51, 2, 123-140.
>(http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/krack/academic/papers.html)
> >and Valdis Krebs’ work of Post-Merger Integration
> >(http://www.orgnet.com/merger.html).
> >
> >We met a technical problem in calculating the index with Ucinet. We made
>up
> >a small symmetrical binary dataset and a corresponding attribute dataset
>to
> >test the E-I Index function (network – network properties – E-I index).
> >However, after running the function, there is only a Log file, saying
> >‘Warning: This procedure ignores direction of ties’, and without the
> >expected output file IndE-I. We changed the inputs into different forms,
> >but got the same result.
> >
> >Anybody who met this problem before?
> >
> >The followings are the test datasets and Log file.
> >
> >Input dataset:
> > A B C D E F
> >A 1 1 1
> >B 1 1 1 1 1
> >C 1 1 1
> >D 1 1 1 1
> >E 1 1
> >F 1 1 1 1 1
> >
> >Attribute dataset:
> >A 1
> >B 1
> >C 1
> >D 2
> >E 2
> >F 2
> >
> >OUTPUT.LOG1
> >
> >E-I INDEX
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-----
> >Adjacency dataset: D:\Mes documents\UCinet test\test 1
> >Attribute: test 1 group col 1
> ># of Permutations: 5000
> >Random seed: 2923
> >Individual E-I scores: IndE-I
> >
> >Warning: This procedure ignores direction of ties.
> >
> >----------------------------------------
> >Running time: 00:00:01
> >Output generated: 31 janv. 05 20:25:36
> >Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Analytic Technologies
> >
> >
> >Jeff
> >
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