A statnet Tutorial

Abstract

The statnet suite of R packages contains a wide range of functionality for the statistical analysis of social networks, including the implementation of exponential-family random graph (ERG) models. In this paper we illustrate some of the functionality of statnet through a tutorial analysis of a friendship network of 1,461 adolescents.

Keywords

• relational data
• social networks
• exponential-family random graph models
• statnet
• R