Symbolic Data Analysis for Social Networks
Fernando Pérez1,
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1. IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico
? Contact author: fernando@sigma.iimas.unam.mx
Keywords: Symbolic Data, Social Network Analysis, Public Health.
Public Health problems are one of the most interesting topics in Social Network Analysis given
its repercusions and variety of contexts (Shaefer & Simpkins, 2014). We seek to study “infection”
by customs and values, so we will be looking into non traditional structures. This is interesting
because of the unusual nature and the complexity of quantifying a relationship of this abstract
nature, but it is precisely this that allows the incorporation of Symbolic Data analysis (Diday &
Noirhomme-Fraiture, 2008) (Giordano & Brito, 2014).
References
Giordano, G. & Brito, P (2014). Social Networks as Symbolic Data. Analysis and Modeling of
Complex Data in Behavioral and Social Sciences, Springer
Schaefer, D. & Simpkins, S. (2014). Using Social Nework Analysis to Clarify the Role of Obesity
in Selection of Adolescent Friends. American Journal of Public Health. 104, 1223–1229.
Diday, E. & Noirhomme-Fraiture, M. (2008). Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software.
Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software Wiley, England.