Table S4 Best-fit values of the random hiring parameter p for the History 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 | – | – | 0.009 | 0.283 | 0.301 |
S | – | – | 0.009 | 0.281 | 0.3 | |
Local homophily | E | – | – | – | – | – |
S | – | 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.092 | 0.155 | |
Ranking | E | – | – | – | – | – |
S | – | – | – | – | – | |
Rank-weighted production | E | – | – | 0.161 | 0.3 | 0.301 |
S | – | – | 0.161 | 0.298 | 0.302 | |
Rank-weighted homophily | E | – | 0.031 | 0.134 | 0.215 | 0.226 |
S | – | 0.034 | 0.134 | 0.215 | 0.222 | |