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Exploring Network Behavior Using Cluster Analysis

In: New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness

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  • Rong Rong

    (Weber State University)

  • Daniel Houser

    (George mason University)

Abstract

Innovation increasingly does occur in network environments. Identifying the important players in the innovative process, namely “the innovators”, is key to understanding the process of innovation. Doing this requires flexible analysis tools tailored to work well with complex datasets generated within such environments. One such tool, cluster analysis, organizes a large data set into discrete groups based on patterns of similarity. It can be used to discover data patterns in networks without requiring strong ex ante assumptions about the properties of either the data generating process or the environment. This paper reviews key procedures and algorithms related to cluster analysis. Further, it demonstrates how to choose among these methods to identify the characteristics of players in a network experiment where innovation emerges endogenously.

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  • Rong Rong & Daniel Houser, 2015. "Exploring Network Behavior Using Cluster Analysis," Springer Books, in: Eskil Ullberg (ed.), New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 161-182, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-11979-3_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11979-3_10
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    1. Tomislava Pavić Kramarić & Mirjana Pejić Bach & Ksenija Dumičić & Berislav Žmuk & Maja Mihelja Žaja, 2018. "Exploratory study of insurance companies in selected post-transition countries: non-hierarchical cluster analysis," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 26(3), pages 783-807, September.

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    • C46 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Specific Distributions
    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access

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