Bernard and Killworth Fraternity

Description

These data concern interactions among students living in a fraternity at a West Virginia college. bkFratB records the number of times a pair of subjects were seen in conversation by an "unobtrusive" observer (who walked through the public areas of the building every fifteen minutes, 21 hours a day, for five days). bkFratC contains rankings made by the subjects of how frequently they interacted with other subjects in the observation week.

Attributes

The Bernard and Killworth Fraternity data set contains two different networks. Both networks concern a group of students living in a fraternity at a West Virginia college. All subjects had been residents in the fraternity from three months to three years. A vertex in each of these networks represents one of the students in the fraternity. The edge definition in the two networks is slightly different. The first, bkFracB, records the number of times a pair of subjects were seen in conversation by an "unobtrusive" observer. Therefore, edges in the bkFractB network represent communication frequency as reported by the observer. The second, bkFratC, contains rankings made by the subjects of how frequently they interacted with other subjects in the observation week. Therefore, the bkFratC network is a complete graph where each edge has an associated rank value. Rank scores are store as edge attributes. Therefore the attribute represents the ranking given by ego i to alter j.

Collection

Bernard and Killworth, later with the help of Sailer, collected five sets of data on human interactions in bounded groups and on the actors' ability to recall those interactions. In each study they obtained measures of social interaction among all actors, and ranking data based on the subjects' memory of those interactions. The names of all cognitive (recall) matrices end in C, those of the behavioral measures in B. The Bernard and Killworth data was published in a series of articles beginning in 1976, see references for additional information.

Licenses and Citation

Bernard and Killworth Fraternity Data (1976) https://www.networkdata.ics.uci.edu
If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.

Source

Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006): Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/.

References

The original source should be cited as:
Killworth B and Bernard H. (1976). Informant accuracy in social network data. Human Organization, 35, 269-286.
Bernard H and Killworth P. (1977). Informant accuracy in social network data II. Human Communication Research, 4, 3-18.
Killworth P and Bernard H. (1979). Informant accuracy in social network data III. Social Networks, 2, 19-46.

When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Christopher L. DuBois, Emma S. Spiro, Zack Almquist, Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 netdata: A Collection of Network Data
http://www.csde.washington.edu/statnet