control.simulate.ergm.ego function

Control parameters for simulate.ergm.ego().

Constructs and checks the list of control parameters for simulation by simulate.ergm.ego().

control.simulate.ergm.ego(
  ppop.wt = c("round", "sample"),
  SAN = control.san(),
  simulate = control.simulate(),
  ...
)

Arguments

• ppop.wt: Because each ego must be represented in the pseuodopopulation network an integral number of times, if the sample is weighted (or the target $|N'|$ calculated from ppopsize and ppopsize.mul is not a multiple of the sample size), it may not be possible, for a finite $|N'|$ to represent each ego exactly according to its relative weight, and ppop.wt controls how the fractional egos are allocated:

  • "round": (default) Rather than treating ppopsize as a hard setting, calculate $|N'| w_i / w_\cdot$ for each ego $i$ and round it to the nearest integer. Then, the $|N'|$ actually used will be the sum of these rounded freqencies.
  • "sample": Resample in proportion to $w_i$.

• SAN: A list of control parameters for san()

  constructed by control.ergm(), called to construct a pseudopopulation network consistent with the data.

• simulate: A list of control parameters for simulate.formula() constructed by control.simulate(), called to simulate from the model fit.

• ...: Not used at this time.

Returns

A list with arguments as components.

See Also

control.simulate, control.san

Author(s)

Pavel N. Krivitsky