New Models and Analyses for Social Networks and Criminological Careers

Relational event models for longitudinal network data with an application to interhospital patient transfers

Duy Vu, Alessandro Lomi, Daniele Mascia, Francesca Pallotti

2017-06-30

The main objective of this paper is to introduce and illustrate relational event models, a new class of statistical models for the..

Statistical modelling of a terrorist network

M Aitkin, D Vu, B Francis

2017-06-01

The paper investigates the group structure in a terrorist network through the latent class model and a Bayesian model comparison m..

Relational event models for social learning in MOOCs

D Vu, P Pattison, G Robins

2015-10-01

We propose three extensions for the relational event framework to model the co-evolution of multiple network event streams which a..

Variational algorithms for biclustering models

D Vu, M Aitkin

2015-09-01

Biclustering is an important tool in exploratory statistical analysis which can be used to detect latent row and column groups of ..

A new Bayesian approach for determining the number of components in a finite mixture

M Aitkin, D Vu, B Francis

2015-08-22

This article evaluates a new Bayesian approach to determining the number of components in a finite mixture. We evaluate through si..

Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks

M Aitkin, D Vu, B Francis

2014-01-01

This research evaluates the identification of group structure in social networks through the latent class model and a new Bayesian..