Table S2 Best-fit values of the random hiring parameter p for the Business faculty hiring network. Each entry in the table presents the value of p that minimized the distance between modeled networks and empirical networks for values of preference strength β, initializations (E, Egalitarian; S, Skewed) and hiring models, as shown. For combinations which were unable to plausibly reproduce the properties of empirical networks (\(D>0.1\), see Methods), no value of p is given
Hiring Model | Init. | Preference Strength, β | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | ||
Faculty production | E | – | – | 0.007 | 0.39 | 0.418 |
S | – | – | 0.008 | 0.391 | 0.419 | |
Local homophily | E | – | – | – | – | – |
S | – | 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.28 | 0.39 | |
Ranking | E | – | – | – | – | – |
S | – | – | – | – | 0.04 | |
Rank-weighted production | E | – | – | 0.247 | 0.418 | 0.429 |
S | – | – | 0.244 | 0.418 | 0.423 | |
Rank-weighted homophily | E | – | 0.064 | 0.236 | 0.354 | 0.342 |
S | – | 0.067 | 0.238 | 0.395 | 0.412 | |