This data set (formerly called “fauxhigh”) represents a simulation of
an in-school friendship network. The network is named faux.mesa.high
because the school commnunity on which it is based is in the rural western
US, with a student body that is largely Hispanic and Native American.
data(faux.mesa.high)faux.mesa.high is a network object
with 205 vertices (students, in this case) and 203 undirected edges (mutual
friendships). To obtain additional summary information about it, type
summary(faux.mesa.high).
The vertex attributes are Grade, Sex, and Race. The
Grade attribute has values 7 through 12, indicating each student's
grade in school. The Race attribute is based on the answers to two
questions, one on Hispanic identity and one on race, and takes six possible
values: White (non-Hisp.), Black (non-Hisp.), Hispanic, Asian (non-Hisp.),
Native American, and Other (non-Hisp.)
If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
When publishing results obtained using this data set, the original authors (Resnick et al, 1997) should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Mark S. Handcock, David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 statnet: Software tools for the Statistical Modeling of Network Data statnet.org.
Hunter D.R., Goodreau S.M. and Handcock M.S. (2008). Goodness of Fit of Social Network Models, Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Resnick M.D., Bearman, P.S., Blum R.W. et al. (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, 278: 823-32.