Statistics Colloquium by Professor Elizabeth Upton, Williams College

From Nodes to Knowledge: The Statistical Analysis of Network Data, by Professor Elizabeth Upton, Williams College, Wednesday October 4, 1:10-1:50, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim

Advances in data collection have led to the increased presence and availability of network-indexed data, that is, data that has an inherent structure. Networks are composed of nodes (actors, vertices, egos, units) and edges (relationships, ties, links) and are found in a number of diverse fields.  In this talk we will review three different statistical approaches to analyzing network data and discuss a number of applications.