ergmclust-package: ERGM-based network clustering

In ergmclust: ERGM-Based Network Clustering

Description

Clustering and estimation of parameters in ERGMs for static undirected and directed networks with inference based on VEM algorithm.

Details

The ergmclust package is an R implementation that serves as an estimation framework for static binary networks, in both undirected and directed cases. Its main functions include ergmclust for clustering and parameter estimation, ergmclust.ICL for model selection, and ergmclust.plot for visualizing the clustered network. The package is based on VEM algorithm (Vu et. al., 2013) and works well with both simulated and real-world data.

Author(s)

Authors: Amal Agarwal [aut, cre], Kevin Lee [aut], Lingzhou Xue [aut, cre], Anna Yinqi Zhang [cre]

Maintainer: Amal Agarwal <[e-mail]>

References

Agarwal, A. and Xue, L. (2019) Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks With Application to Water Pollution Analysis, Technometrics, to appear

https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00401706.2019.1623076

Biernacki, C., Celeux, G., and Govaert, G. (2000) Assessing a mixture model for clustering with the integrated completed likelihood, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 22(7), 719-725

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/865189

Blei, D. M. , Kucukelbir, A., and McAuliffe, J. D. (2017), Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 112(518), 859-877

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2017.1285773

Daudin, J. J., Picard, F., and Robin, S. (2008) A Mixture Model for Random Graphs, Statistics and Computing, Vol. 18(2), 173–183

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11222-007-9046-7

Lee, K. H., Xue, L, and Hunter, D. R. (2017) Model-Based Clustering of Time-Evolving Networks through Temporal Exponential-Family Random Graph Models, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, to appear

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07325

Vu D. Q., Hunter, D. R., and Schweinberger, M. (2013) Model-based Clustering of Large Networks, The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 7(2), 1010-1039

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1372338477

ergmclust documentation built on Feb. 1, 2021, 9:07 a.m.