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This chapter starts by defining the kind of behavioral data to which methods in this book apply: discrete ordinal variables with a finite number of categories (which includes dichotomous variables). It continues by describing the behavioral variables in the Teenage Friends and Lifestyle Study, the data set used in many examples, and how they change over time. Typical issues of data coding, re-coding, and description are illustrated. Some important descriptive statistics are presented that connect the behavior data with the network, with the focus on network autocorrelation coefficients.

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This chapter uses network autocorrelation coefficients as evaluation criteria of the goodness of fit of a network–behavior co-evolution model. It illustrates the comparison of different model specifications using Moran’s I statistic and shows how this leads, in this case, to a specification with influence at geodesic distance equal to two.

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