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We evaluate and extend a new model for inference with network data, the Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM), that simultaneously allows both inference on covariates and

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ERGMs can describe the structure of social networks by accommodating a hierarchy of network statistics reflecting dependence assumptions at different local levels such as dyadic

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Trying this iterative sampling with spectral clustering algorithm on existing networks have generated simulations with very accurate counts and densities of overall, homophilous,

Our results provide a formal justification for Bayesian inference in these wide classes of models: our models accommodate any proper distribution for the random effects (which

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