Research interests: Methodology for social network analysis (including development of new procedures, making them available through software, and contributing to their application); multilevel analysis; and statistical modelling in the social sciences in general. My professional interest focuses on applied statistics for the social and behavioural sciences; and mathematical modelling in the social sciences. More specific domains of interest are social network analysis, multi-level research, item response theory, and mathematical sociology; and the development of data analysis methods that reflect as much as possible the theoretical insights into the phenomenon under study. My main work in recent years has been about the development of statistical methods for network dynamics and also for cross-sectionally observed networks, which has led to the computer programme SIENA which is available as freeware.

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Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford OX1 1NF

tom.snijders "at" nuffield.ox.ac.uk

web page: http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/snijders/