Using Correspondence Analysis for Joint Displays of Affiliation Networks

Abstract

This chapter describes and illustrates methods for studying affiliation networks, with special attention to methods for spatial representations that jointly display the actors and events in the network. Although affiliation networks have been the focus of methodological research for decades (Levine 1972; Breiger 1974; Seidman 1981; McPherson 1982; Wilson 1982), more recent analyses of affiliation networks have raised a number of issues concerning appropriate methods for their study. At the same time, research has pointed to the empirical and theoretical generality of this perspective (Freeman and White 1993; Wasserman and Faust 1994; Borgatti and Everett 1997; Faust 1997; Skvoretz and Faust 1999; Breiger 2000; Mische and Pattison 2000; Roberts 2000; Brazill and Groffman 2002; Faust et al. 2002; Pattison and Breiger 2002).