Social network analysis

The course equips students with the skills to independently conduct empirical studies analyzing the formation of social relationship structures and their impact on various social outcomes, using R. Specifically, students will learn to: i) Evaluate whether and which social network research design is appropriate to a target research question; ii) Design a network survey and gathering web-based secondary data; iii) Compute statistics to describe network- and individual-level properties; iv) Test hypotheses about causal mechanisms using state-of-the- art statistical and computational modelling.