scc_terms: Terms used for the Citation-ERGM

Description Terms used in Schmid, Chen, and Desmarais (2020)

Description

This page documents the terms that can be used for fitting exponential random graph models of citation networks using the function cergm from the cergm package.

The terms included here are used in the same manner as ergm-terms from the base ergm package. This means that in addition to fitting ERGMs, they can be used for network simulation (simulate.ergm) and assessing goodness-of-fit (mcmc.diagnostics and gof).

Terms used in Schmid, Chen, and Desmarais (2020)

This set of network terms are used in Schmid, Chen, and Desmarais, 2020. “Generative Dynamics of Supreme Court Citations: Analysis with a New Statistical Network Model”. (https://github.com/desmarais-lab/Supreme_Court_Citation_Network)

difftransties(attrname) (directed)

Transitive ties with different sender attribute: This term adds one statistic, equal to the number of ties i-->j such that there exists a two-path from i to j, if for the nodal attribute attrname, the sending node i is different from j and the node on the two-path.


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