%0 Journal Article %1 HunterHandcock:2007 %A Hunter, David R. %A Handcock, Mark S. %A Butts, Carter T. %A Goodreau, Steven M. %A Morris, Martina %D 2007 %J Journal of Statistical Software %K code methodology network-analysis social %N 3 %P 1--29 %T Ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks %V 24 %X We describe some of the capabilities of the ergm package and the statistical theory underlying it. This package contains tools for accomplishing three important, and inter- related, tasks involving exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs): estimation, simulation, and goodness of fit. More precisely, ergm has the capability of approximating a maximum likelihood estimator for an ERGM given a network data set; simulating new network data sets from a fitted ERGM using Markov chain Monte Carlo; and assessing how well a fitted ERGM does at capturing characteristics of a particular network data set.

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