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Viviana Amati
Researcher at ETH Zurich
Publications - 21
Citations - 353
Viviana Amati is an academic researcher from ETH Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Generalized method of moments & Method of moments (statistics). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 19 publications receiving 241 citations. Previous affiliations of Viviana Amati include University of Konstanz.
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Social relations and life satisfaction: the role of friends
TL;DR: Data from Aspects of Daily Life, the Italian National Statistical Institute’s 2012 multipurpose survey, is used to analyze the relation between friendship ties and life satisfaction and shows that friendship, in terms of intensity and quality, is positively associated to life satisfaction.
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Reconstructing Archaeological Networks with Structural Holes
TL;DR: This paper considers exponential random graph models, and shows how they can be applied to reconstruct networks coherent with Burt's arguments on closure and structural holes (Burt 2001), illustrated on data from the Middle Bronze Age in the Aegean.
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Social Network Modeling
TL;DR: This review focuses on models for single network observations, particularly on the family of exponential random graph models, and discusses issues of model specification, estimation and assessment.
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Classic Maya bloodletting and the cultural evolution of religious rituals: quantifying patterns of variation in hieroglyphic texts.
TL;DR: The results indicate that bloodletting rituals by Maya nobles were not uniformly recorded, but were typically documented in association with antagonistic statements and may have signaled royal commitments among connected polities.
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Some days are better than others: Examining time-specific variation in the structuring of interorganizational relations
TL;DR: It is found that aggregate estimates of parameters associated with mechanisms of theoretical interest mask fine-grained temporal variation in relational events sequences.