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Exploratory blockmodeling is an (inductive) approach (or a group of approaches) in blockmodeling regarding the specification of an ideal blockmodel.[1]: 234 This approach, also known as hypotheses-generating, is the simplest approach, as it "merely involves the definition of the block types permitted as well as of the number of clusters."[2] With this approach, researcher usually defines the best possible blockmodel, which then represent the base for the analysis of the whole network.[3]
This approach is usually based on:[4]: 284
previous analyses and theoretical considerations,
using stricker blockmodel and block types, where the structural equivalence is stricker than the regular equivalence and
using smaller number of classes.
The opposite approach is called a confirmatory blockmodeling.
^Doreian, Patrick; Batagelj, Vladimir; Ferligoj, Anuška (2004). Generalized Blockmodeling (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84085-6.
^WEBER, M. (2007), “Introducing blockmodeling to input-output analysis”. 16th International I-Ot Conf, Istanbul, Turkey.
^Faust, Katherine; Wasserman, Stanley (1992). "Blockmodels: Interpretation and evaluation". Social Networks. 14: 5–61.
^Nooy, Wouter de; Mrvar, Andrej; Batagelj, Vladimir (2018). Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Revised and Expanded Edition for Updated Software. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-47414-6.
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