Fisher, David N.Ilany, AmiyaalSilk, Matthew J.Tregenza, Tom2020-05-012020-05-012017-03Fisher, D N, Ilany, A, Silk, M J & Tregenza, T 2017, 'Analysing animal social network dynamics : the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models', Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 202-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.126300021-8790ORCID: /0000-0002-4444-4450/work/36056693https://hdl.handle.net/2164/14222We thank Bea Downing, Lucy Steward, Mike Kings and Jonathan Jarrett for useful discussions surrounding network analysis and for testing the R code. We also thank Tom Snijders for providing useful comments that improved the manuscript. Alecia Carter, Damien Farine and an anonymous reviewer provided extensive reviews of the manuscript that substantially improved it. Finally, we thank Rolando Rodrıguez-Munoz and Luke Meadows who helped collect the data for the Supporting Information. We have no competing interests. Funding for this research was provided by NERC (studentship no.: NE/H02249X/1; grant no.: NE/H02364X/111244540enganimal communitiesdynamicsindividual-based modelsnetwork-based diffusion analysissocial networkstransmissionQH301 BiologyNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)NE/H02249X/1NE/H02364X/1Supplementary DataQH301Journal article10.1111/1365-2656.12630https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/25997862