ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks

We describe some of the capabilities of the ergm package and the statistical theory underlying it. This package contains tools for accomplishing three important, and inter-related, tasks involving exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs): estimation, simulation, and goodness of fit. More preci...

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Main Authors: David R. Hunter, Mark S. Handcock, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, Martina Morris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2008-12-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i03/paper