Inference for social network models from egocentrically sampled data, with application to understanding persistent racial disparities in HIV prevalence in the US

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 427-455

  Krivitsky, Pavel N ^a   Morris, Martina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Egocentrically sampled data; ERGM; Pseudo maximum likelihood; Pseudolikelihood; Random graph; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017306471     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/16-AOAS1010     Document Type: Article

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