 Deterministic blockmodeling

Deterministic blockmodeling is a technique used in social network analysis to study the structure of networks by categorizing nodes (or actors) into blocks based on their connectivity patterns. Rather than focusing on the specific relationships between individual pairs of nodes, blockmodeling groups nodes into clusters or "blocks" that exhibit similar patterns of connections with other nodes. The goal is to simplify the analysis of complex networks by summarizing the relationships into these distinct blocks.