S3E19: Social Network Analysis: Making Connections with Tracy Sweet
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Is There a Relationship Between the Data and the Outcome Rate?
When i think about this from an inferential standpoint, or hypothesis testing standpoint, something that we might even label as more confirmatory, i don't understand the data. And if some told me, all right, well, you've got 20 people, just for sake of argument, and 20 people should have something like a hundred 90 connections among them, it feels like the data are anything but independent. But in the things that you are describing, i think of the data as not the people per se, or nodes as you call them. Bt, i think about the data more as the edges, the nature of the connections between these people.
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