Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for Longitudinal Networks

By Tom A.B. Snijders and Christian Steglich

Interest in social networks - patterns of relations between social actors such as individuals, corporations, and countries - has grown in the last decade, and analysis of longitudinal network data has moved forward strongly. Social networks often change; understanding this process, where changes lead to other changes, requires tools that can uncover the rules driving these changes. In 'Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for Longitudinal Networks, ' Tom A. B. Snijders and Christian Steglich bring together the first comprehensive textbook on the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model (SAOM), a leading method for analyzing dynamic network data. They present the diverse SAOM variants developed over the past three decades, covering the co-evolution of networks and actor attributes as well as the co-evolution of multiple one-mode and two-mode networks. Providing a foundation for applying the methods as well as advice for problems encountered in practice, this book offers a detailed guide into the best practices of modeling longitudinal network data.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009843672
• ISBN13: 9781009843676
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages