TY - JOUR PY - 1982// TI - A sociometric status index without subgroup membership bias JO - Social networks A1 - Langeheine, Rolf A1 - Andresen, Norbert SP - 233 EP - 242 VL - 4 IS - 3 N2 - Sociometric status is a widely used indicator to assess what is called popularity of a person within a group. The purpose of this paper is to show that status as defined by known indices may be biased whenever there are subgroups unequal in size within the total group and within-group choices are more probable than between-group choices. The problem of subgroup membership bias may be solved, however, by a simple linear transformation.

LA - SN - 0378-8733 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(82)90024-7 ID - ref1 ER -