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 template_network R Documentation

## Construct an Empty “Template” Network Consistent with an Egocentric Sample

### Description

Taking a egor object, constructs a network object with no edges whose vertices have the attributes of the egos in the dataset, replicating the egos as needed, and taking into accounts their sampling weights.

### Usage

template_network(x, N, scaling = c("round", "sample"), ...)


### Arguments

 x A egor object. N The target number of vertices the output network should have. scaling If egor contains weights or N is not a multiple of number of egos in the sample, it may not be possible, for a finite N to represent each ego exactly according to its relative weight, and scaling controls how the fractional egos are allocated: "round"(the default) Rather than treating N as a hard setting, calculate N w_i / w_\cdot for each ego i and round it to the nearest integer. Then, the N actually used will be the sum of these rounded freqencies. "sample"Resample in proportion to w_i. ... Additional arguments, currently unused.

### Value

A network object.

### Author(s)

Pavel N. Krivitsky

as.egor.network, which performs the inverse operation.

### Examples



data(faux.mesa.high)

fmh.ego <- as.egor(faux.mesa.high)

# Same actor attributes
fmh.template <- template_network(fmh.ego, N=network.size(faux.mesa.high))