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Quadratic Assignment Procedure

The quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) is a permutation-based method for testing the association between two relational matrices measured on the same set of actors — for example, whether who advises whom is correlated with who is friends with whom. Because the dyads in a network are not independent, ordinary correlation and regression give invalid p-values; QAP fixes this by comparing the observed matrix correlation to a reference distribution generated by randomly relabeling the nodes of one matrix many times.

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Quadratic Assignment Procedure (QAP) for Network Correlation
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sociology
  • Krackhardt, D. (1988). Predicting with networks: Nonparametric multiple regression analysis of dyadic data. Social Networks, 10(4), 359–381. · DOI 10.1016/0378-8733(88)90004-4
  • Hubert, L., & Schultz, J. (1976). Quadratic assignment as a general data analysis strategy. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 29(2), 190–241. · DOI 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1976.tb00714.x
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Used in the same domainDyadic Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Often confused withMRQAP Network Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainNetwork Autocorrelation Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSocial Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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