A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks

DOI10.1080/01621459.2023.2242627arXiv2202.03685MaRDI QIDQ83205FDOQ83205

Authors: Pavel N. Krivitsky, Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens, Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens 

Publication date: 8 February 2022

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The last two decades have seen considerable progress in foundational aspects of statistical network analysis, but the path from theory to application is not straightforward. Two large, heterogeneous samples of small networks of within-household contacts in Belgium were collected using two different but complementary sampling designs: one smaller but with all contacts in each household observed, the other larger and more representative but recording contacts of only one person per household. We wish to combine their strengths to learn the social forces that shape household contact formation and facilitate simulation for prediction of disease spread, while generalising to the population of households in the region. To accomplish this, we describe a flexible framework for specifying multi-network models in the exponential family class and identify the requirements for inference and prediction under this framework to be consistent, identifiable, and generalisable, even when data are incomplete; explore how these requirements may be violated in practice; and develop a suite of quantitative and graphical diagnostics for detecting violations and suggesting improvements to candidate models. We report on the effects of network size, geography, and household roles on household contact patterns (activity, heterogeneity in activity, and triadic closure).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03685

zbMATH Keywords

missing dataERGMexponential-family random graph modelmodel-based inferencenetwork sizeregression diagnostics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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