Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks

An integrated set of tools to analyze and simulate networks based on exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs). 'ergm' is a part of the Statnet suite of packages for network analysis. See Hunter, Handcock, Butts, Goodreau, and Morris (2008) and Krivitsky, Hunter, Morris, and Klumb (2023) .


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install.packages("ergm")

4.12.0 by Pavel N. Krivitsky, 8 months ago


https://statnet.org


Report a bug at https://github.com/statnet/ergm/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/ergm


Authors: Mark S. Handcock [aut] , David R. Hunter [aut] , Carter T. Butts [aut] , Steven M. Goodreau [aut] , Pavel N. Krivitsky [aut, cre] (ORCID: , Martina Morris [aut] , Li Wang [ctb] , Kirk Li [ctb] , Skye Bender-deMoll [ctb] , Chad Klumb [ctb] , MichaƂ Bojanowski [ctb] (ORCID: , Ben Bolker [ctb] , Christian Schmid [ctb] , Joyce Cheng [ctb] , Arya Karami [ctb] , Adrien Le Guillou [ctb] (ORCID:


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 + file LICENSE license


Imports robustbase, coda, trust, lpSolveAPI, statnet.common, rle, purrr, rlang, memoise, tibble, magrittr, Rdpack, knitr, stringr, cli, MASS, Matrix, parallel, methods

Depends on network

Suggests latticeExtra, sna, rmarkdown, testthat, ergm.count, withr, covr, Rglpk, slam, networkLite, lattice

Linking to cli


Imported by BFpack, Blaunet, CCMnet, EpiModel, RDS, btergm, ergMargins, ergm.sign, ergmito, migraph, netmediate, statnet, tabulergm.

Depended on by Bergm, VBLPCM, bigergm, dnr, ergm.count, ergm.ego, ergm.multi, ergm.rank, ergmgp, latentnet, mlergm, nemBM, statnetWeb, tergm, tergmLite, xergm.common.

Suggested by broom, ideanet, lolog, motifr, ndtv, netify, sand, tsna.

Enhanced by autograph, stargazer, texreg.


See at CRAN