***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear Zhang Lun, It is my personal opinion that in many cases much more can be learned from breaking up such a large network into more homogeneous subsets and analysing the structure and dynamics of the sub-networks. Best wishes, Tom ?? wrote: > ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: Social Networks Discussion Forum <[log in to unmask]> > Poster: =?GB2312?B?1cXC1w==?= <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Questions about modeling the evolution of social network with > over 30,000 nodes > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --0015175cd2d07d759b04973691a9 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Dear all: > I currently have a dataset of an online social network with over 30,000 > nodes. I want to use the p* model or Snijders' stochastic actor-based model > to estimate the evolution of the network. However, the > current programs (e.g., SIENA) do not allow the input data larger than 1,000 > nodes. > > Can anyone give me some advices on the model estimation? > > Thanks, > ZHANG Lun > > Dept. Media & Communication, > City University of Hong Kong > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > --0015175cd2d07d759b04973691a9 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > Dear all:=A0<div>I currently have a dataset of an online social network wit= > h over 30,000 nodes. I want to use the p* model or Snijders' stochastic= > actor-based model to estimate the evolution of the network. However, the c= > urrent=A0programs=A0(e.g., SIENA) do not allow the input data larger than 1= > ,000 nodes.=A0</div> > <div><br></div><div>Can anyone give me some advices on the model estimation= > ?=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,=A0</div><div>ZHANG Lun</div><div><br>= > </div><div>Dept. Media & Communication,</div><div>City University of Ho= > ng Kong</div> > <div><br></div> > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > --0015175cd2d07d759b04973691a9-- -- ================================================ Tom A.B. Snijders Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences University of Oxford Professor of Statistics and Methodology Department of Sociology, University of Groningen for addresses and telephone numbers: see http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/snijders/ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.