Homophily and Social Distance in the Choice of Multiple Friends an Analysis Based on Conditionally Symmetric Log-Bilinear Association Models
多朋友选择中的同质性与社会距离:条件对称对数双线性关联模型
This article presents an analysis of friendship choice data by focusing on homophily (or inbreeding bias) and social distance revealed in the patterns of both association between subjects' and friends' statuses and association among friends' statuses. These two aspects of inbreeding bias and social distance are simultaneously taken into account in modeling the data of friendship choice from subjects with different numbers of friends. The statuses of friends are expressed in…