Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Multiple Relations or Multiple Raters

Abstract

Introduction Several chapters in this book outline some of the significant advances that have been made in modeling networks and network-based processes (see, for example, Chapters 6, 7, 10, and 11). These models generally presuppose a single network of interest, such as a network of acquaintance ties or a network of advice-seeking ties, and they represent the interdependence of such ties with actor characteristics and other ties in some local network neighborhood (see, for example, Chapter 10). Yet, there are compelling theoretical and methodological reasons to extend these models to the case of multiple networks, and in this chapter we discuss the rationale and nature of these extensions, ..