ergm: A package to fit, simulate and diagnose exponential-family models for networks

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Hunter, David R ^a,d   Handcock, Mark S ^b   Butts, Carter T ^c   Goodreau, Steven M ^b   Morris, Martina ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Exponential family random graph model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood estimation; p star model

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349102044     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v024.i03     Document Type: Article

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