Dyadic Analysis
Dyadic analysis treats the dyad — the pair of actors and the relation between them — as the unit of analysis, separating the relational outcome into what each actor brings to all their relationships and what is unique to the specific pair. It spans the descriptive dyad census of network analysis and statistical frameworks such as Holland and Leinhardt's p1 model and Kenny's Social Relations Model, all of which respect the structural non-independence inherent in relational data.
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Sources
- Holland, P. W., & Leinhardt, S. (1981). An exponential family of probability distributions for directed graphs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 76(373), 33–50. DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1981.10477598 ↗
- Kenny, D. A., Kashy, D. A., & Cook, W. L. (2006). Dyadic Data Analysis. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1-57230-986-9
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Dyadic Analysis of Relational Data. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/sociology/dyadic-analysis
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