ranknonconformity-ergmTerm-a4593778 function

Nonconformity

Measures the amount of "nonconformity" in the network: configurations where an ego $i$ ranks an alter $j$ over another alter $k$, but ego $l$ ranks $k$ over $j$ .

# valued: rank.nonconformity(to, par)

Arguments

• to: which controls to whom an ego may conform:

  • "all" (the default): Nonconformity to all egos is counted. A lower-than-chance value of this statistic and/or a negative coefficient implies a degree of consensus in the network.

  • "localAND": Nonconformity of $i$ to ego $l$ regarding the relative ranking of $j$ and $k$ is only counted if $i$ ranks $l$

    over both $j$ and $k$ . A lower-than-chance value of this statistic and/or a negative coefficient implies a form of hierarchical transitivity in the network. This is the recommended form of local nonconformity (over "local1"

    and "local2" ).

  • "local1": Nonconformity of $i$ to ego $l$ regarding the relative ranking of $j$ and $k$ is only counted if $i$ ranks $l$ over $j$ .

  • "local2": Nonconformity of $i$ to ego $l$ regarding the relative ranking of $j$ and $k$ is only counted if $i$ ranks $l$ over $k$ .

  • "thresholds": Nonconformity of $i$ to ego $l$ regarding the relative ranking of $j$ and $k$ is only counted if $i$ ranks $l$ above par, where par

    can be a vector with multiple thresholds.

  • "geometric": Nonconformity of $i$ to ego $l$ regarding the relative ranking of $j$ and $k$ is weighted by par taken to the power of the rank of $l$ by $i$ , where par

    is a scalar.

• par: additional parameters for some types of nonconformity.

See Also

ergmTerm for index of model terms currently visible to the package.

ergm:::.formatTermKeywords("ergmTerm", "rank.nonconformity","subsection")