statnet

statnet users guide

Online User's guide

There are extensive help facilities available for statnet, both through the help function of the program (which is the standard R-based help function) and on this website. Technical support is also available via email though the statnet help mailing list (see the statnet Users Group page for more information).

The following manuals are taken from the special volume of the Journal of Statistical Software on statnet (volume 24, 2008). They provide a comprehensive overview of statnet functionality, as well as hands-on tutorials for each of the packages.

• Introduction to exponential family random graph models (ergm) for networks, and an overview of statnet
• network: A package for managing relational data in R
• ergm: A package to fit, simulate and diagnose exponential family models for networks
• Using ergm : Specification of exponential-family random graph models and computational tips
• latentnet: a package for fitting latent cluster models for networks
• sna: A package for social network analysis
• dynamicnetwork and rSoNIA: Prototype packages for managing and animating longitudinal network data
• networksis: A Package to Simulate Bipartite Graphs with Fixed Marginals Through Sequential Importance Sampling
• A tutorial on statnet
    updated tutorial code for R2.8.1 and ergm2.2 (March 2009)

The statnet package is
Copyright (c) 2007

Mark S. Handcock, University of Washington
David R. Hunter, Penn State University
Carter T. Butts, University of California-Irvine
Steven M. Goodreau, University of Washington
Martina Morris, University of Washington

The statnet development team