nodeofactordistinct-ergmTerm {ergm}R Documentation

Number of distinct out-neighbor types

Description

This term adds a single network statistic to the model, counting, for each node, the number of distinct values of the attribute found among its neighbors.

Usage

# binary: nodeofactordistinct(attr, levels=TRUE)

Arguments

attr

a vertex attribute specification (see Specifying Vertex attributes and Levels (?nodal_attributes) for details.)

levels

this optional argument controls which levels of the attribute attributes and Levels (?nodal_attributes) for details.)

Details

This is a network analogue of the statistic introduced by Hoffman et al. (2023).

References

Hoffman M, Block P, Snijders TAB (2023). “Modeling Partitions of Individuals.” Sociological Methodology, 53(1), 1–41. ISSN 1467-9531, doi:10.1177/00811750221145166.

See Also

ergmTerm for index of model terms currently visible to the package.

Keywords

categorical nodal attribute, directed, binary


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