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References:


Sim, F. M. and Schwartz, M. R. 1979. /Does Concor Find Positions?/ Paper 
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New 
York.

Doreian, P. 1988. Using Multiple Network Analytic Tools for a Single 
Social Network. /Social Networks/, 10, pp. 287-312.

Faust, K. 1988. Comparison of Methods for Positional Analysis: 
Structural and General Equivalences. /Social Networks/, 10(4), pp. 313-341.

Schwartz, J. E. 1977. An Examination of CONCOR and Related Methods for 
Blocking Sociometric Data. /Sociological Methodology/, 8, pp. 255-282.




Semenov Alexander wrote:
> Thanks!
> I have one more question - can you give me full citations of the 
> mentioned articles? I know only Doreian's article and can't identify 
> others.
> Alexander.
>
> 2010/3/31 Carl Nordlund <[log in to unmask] 
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>
>     Hi,
>     Even though the Concor algorithm can provide results that are
>     intuitive, there has been quite a lot of critique raised against
>     it (e.g. Sim and Schwartz 1979; Doreian 1988; Faust 1988). One of
>     its founders has explicitly said that there is "[no] justification
>     for advocating the iteration of [correlance coefficients] matrices
>     as a method for analysis of data" (Schwartz 1977:266ff). Tha
>     algorithm always produced 2 splits, and makes subsequent
>     partitions quite arbitrary when it comes to which of these splits
>     to split further.
>
>     If there are strong arguments to use structural equivalence,
>     perhaps it would be better to simply use the correlance matrix
>     (distance-based or Pearson) and use MDS to plot these in two
>     dimensions, subsequently interpreting this in combination with a
>     dendrogram. Depending on the data, and what you are looking for,
>     you should also look into regular equivalence (if that specific
>     sociological notion of "roles" is applicable to your particular
>     study).
>
>     I might be wrong, but it was quite some time since I last saw a
>     solid argument on the advantages of using the Concor algorithm.
>
>     Yours,
>     Carl
>
>     Semenov Alexander wrote:
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>            I guess you have your data already clustered by CONCOR, and you
>            would like
>            to present the reduced blockmatrix by MDS?
>
>         When I run MDS directly in NetMiner it draws me a map with
>         only a few visible actors. It seems like 90% of nodes are
>         exactly in the centre and one-two are at the end of each axis.
>         It's almost imposible to interpret such picture.  But when I
>         check MDS as an output option in CONCOR, it shows me nice
>         scatter plot with 3 distinctive axis and some dispersion. This
>         picture corresponds with my substantive assumptions and very
>         interesting for interpretation.
>
>            Anyhow, you will be much more exposed to criticism for adopting
>            CONCOR, than
>            for using MDS...
>
>         Why? Unfortunatelly, I really doubt it =( Here in Russia there
>         is only one thesis on SNA and only one book about it. And the
>         author of both of them is my tutor. My search for SNA in local
>         sociological journals revealed only 4 articles. So, this
>         listserve is the only place for me to search an advice. That's
>         why I'm asking such a noob questions.
>         Alexander.
>
>
>         2010/3/31 Balazs Vedres <[log in to unmask]
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>            "rarely used" - I think it is very often used.
>            I guess you have your data already clustered by CONCOR, and you
>            would like
>            to present the reduced blockmatrix by MDS? That is fine.
>            You can also use MDS to represent the original structural
>            similarity measure
>            matrix, and possibly include the centroids of CONCOR blocks.
>            Anyhow, you will be much more exposed to criticism for adopting
>            CONCOR, than
>            for using MDS...
>
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>     -- 
>     Carl Nordlund, BA, PhD student
>     carl.nordlund(at)hek.lu.se <http://hek.lu.se>
>     Human Ecology Division, Lund university
>     www.hek.lu.se <http://www.hek.lu.se>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Alexander Semenov.
> MA student
> Faculty of Sociology
> Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
> http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
>
> Graduate Student in Sociology at
> State University - Higher School of Economics
> http://www.hse.ru/eng


-- 
Carl Nordlund, BA, PhD student
carl.nordlund(at)hek.lu.se
Human Ecology Division, Lund university
www.hek.lu.se

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