ergm (version 4.7.1)

absdiff-ergmTerm: Absolute difference in nodal attribute

Description

This term adds one network statistic to the model equaling the sum of abs(attr[i]-attr[j])^pow for all edges (i,j) in the network.

Usage

# binary: absdiff(attr,
#                 pow=1)
# valued: absdiff(attr,
#                 pow=1,
#                 form="sum")

Arguments

attr

a vertex attribute specification (see Specifying Vertex attributes and Levels (?nodal_attributes) for details.)

pow

power to which to take the absolute difference

form

character how to aggregate tie values in a valued ERGM

See Also

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

ergm:::.formatTermKeywords("ergmTerm", "absdiff", "subsection")