Methoden vergleichen

	Homophily Analysis	Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model
Fachgebiet	Sociology	Sociology
Familie	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Entstehungsjahr	1954 (concept); 2001 (synthesis)	2001
Urheber	Lazarsfeld & Merton (concept); McPherson, Smith-Lovin & Cook (synthesis)	Tom A. B. Snijders
Typ	Measurement of similarity-based tie formation	Continuous-time model for longitudinal network and behavior dynamics
Wegweisende Quelle	McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27, 415–444.	Snijders, T. A. B. (2001). The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics. Sociological Methodology, 31(1), 361–395.
Aliasnamen	homophily measurement, assortative mixing analysis, birds-of-a-feather analysis, tie-similarity analysis	SAOM, actor-based model, stochastic actor-based model, SIENA model
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Homophily analysis quantifies the tendency of similar individuals to form ties — the principle that 'birds of a feather flock together'. It compares the rate at which people connect with others who share an attribute (race, gender, age, education, attitudes) against what would be expected by chance, distinguishing the homophily that arises merely from group sizes from the genuine, behavior-driven preference for similar others.	The stochastic actor-oriented model (SAOM), implemented in the SIENA software, is a framework for analyzing the dynamics of social networks observed at two or more time points. It treats observed network panels as snapshots of an unobserved continuous-time process in which actors, at stochastically timed moments, evaluate their local network and decide whether to create, maintain, or drop a tie so as to improve their position according to an objective function.