Optimization Frameworks for Tie-Oriented and Actor-Oriented Relational Event Models

Tools for fitting, diagnosing, and analyzing tie-oriented and actor-oriented relational event models, under both frequentist and Bayesian approaches. The package supports tie-oriented modeling (Butts, 2008, ) and an actor-oriented modeling framework (Stadtfeld et al., 2017, ), with additional model diagnostics and goodness-of-fit tools. Interfaces to estimation backends provide a range of extensions: random-effects (frailty) relational event models capturing sender, receiver, and dyadic heterogeneity (Juozaitiene & Wit 2024, ; Mulder & Hoff, 2024, ), finite mixture and dyadic latent class models for unobserved dyadic heterogeneity (Lakdawala et al., 2026, ), penalized estimation via the lasso, ridge, and elastic net (Tibshirani, R., 1996, ; Karimova et al., 2023, ), and approximate Bayesian regularization (Karimova et al., 2025, ). Modeling of events with a duration is also supported (Lakdawala et al., 2026, ) and moving window relational event models (Mulder & Leenders, 2019, ; Meijerink et al., 2023, ).