Pessoal,
Dear Carter,2010/2/25 Carter T. Butts <buttsc@uci.edu <mailto:buttsc@uci.edu>>
Thanks a lot! For sure I'll let you know about any bug, and by the way to solve any hard "doubt" I cannot deal with...
All the best
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Hi, Fernando -
Fernando Colugnati wrote:
Dear Dr Butts,
My name is Fernando Colugnati, I am a Brazilian researcher at
the Research Institutte for Technology and Innovation, working
on analysis of WEB 2.0 tools. I am statistician.
I found your paper "A relational event framework for social
action" really interesting, and want to model Discussion Forums
using that approach. I would like to ask you if it is possible
to use the R package cited, in the article, RELEVENT, to test in
some datasets I have, having my mais interest in compare forums
related to content interest and social relationship, both from a
distance course platform, having an intersection set of authors
that played in both forums.
The package will be used for research actvities only, and if you
need I can send you more details, or share results as the
research goes forward.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Best regards
No problem. Here is the R source package; it's not yet on CRAN
because the documentation could use some work, but the basic
routines are documented. The two main functions are rem and
rem.ego, the former being designed for dyadic models of the sort
used in the paper, and the latter being originally intended for
"egocentric" event data (although, in point of fact, it can actually
be used to fit a wider range of models, given appropriate
specification of the model statistics). The main routines have been
tested a fair amount (in their core functionality, at least), but
this is still a beta package and under active development...please
let me know if you find any bugs.
Hope this helps!
-Carter
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