Monks {LLN}R Documentation

The Sampson's Monks dataset

Description

Sampson (1969) recorded the social interactions among a group of 18 monks while resident as an experimenter on vision, and collected numerous sociometric rankings.

Usage

data(Monks)

Format

Monks$Y: the binary sociomatrix in which 1 indicates a friendship tie and 0 indicates no tie\ Monks$cls: the class membership of each node: 1 corresponds to the loyal opposition group, 2 corresponds to the young Turks group and 3 corresponds to the outcasts group.

Source

Sampson, S.~F. (1968), A novitiate in a period of change: An experimental and case study of relationships, Unpublished ph.d. dissertation, Department of Sociology, Cornell University.

References

White, H.C., Boorman, S.A. and Breiger, R.L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81(4), 730-780.

Examples

data(Monks)
pos <- latpos(Monks$Y,p=2)
plot(pos,cls=Monks$cls)

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