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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks'
version: 4.8.1
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ergm
abstract: An integrated set of tools to analyze and simulate networks based on exponential-family
  random graph models (ERGMs). 'ergm' is a part of the Statnet suite of packages for
  network analysis. See Hunter, Handcock, Butts, Goodreau, and Morris (2008) <https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v024.i03>
  and Krivitsky, Hunter, Morris, and Klumb (2023) <https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v105.i06>.
authors:
- family-names: Handcock
  given-names: Mark S.
  email: handcock@stat.ucla.edu
- family-names: Hunter
  given-names: David R.
  email: dhunter@stat.psu.edu
- family-names: Butts
  given-names: Carter T.
  email: buttsc@uci.edu
- family-names: Goodreau
  given-names: Steven M.
  email: goodreau@u.washington.edu
- family-names: Krivitsky
  given-names: Pavel N.
  email: pavel@statnet.org
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3362
- family-names: Morris
  given-names: Martina
  email: morrism@u.washington.edu
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks'
  authors:
  - family-names: Handcock
    given-names: Mark S.
    email: handcock@stat.ucla.edu
  - family-names: Hunter
    given-names: David R.
    email: dhunter@stat.psu.edu
  - family-names: Butts
    given-names: Carter T.
    email: buttsc@uci.edu
  - family-names: Goodreau
    given-names: Steven M.
    email: goodreau@u.washington.edu
  - family-names: Krivitsky
    given-names: Pavel N.
    email: pavel@statnet.org
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3362
  - family-names: Morris
    given-names: Martina
    email: morrism@u.washington.edu
  institution:
    name: The Statnet Project (\urlhttps://statnet.org)
  year: '2025'
  notes: R package version 4.8.1
  url: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm
repository-code: https://github.com/statnet/ergm
url: https://statnet.org
date-released: '2025-01-20'
contact:
- family-names: Krivitsky
  given-names: Pavel N.
  email: pavel@statnet.org
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3362
references:
- type: article
  title: 'ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models
    for Networks'
  authors:
  - family-names: Hunter
    given-names: David R.
  - family-names: Handcock
    given-names: Mark S.
  - family-names: Butts
    given-names: Carter T.
  - family-names: Goodreau
    given-names: Steven M.
  - family-names: Morris
    given-names: Martina
  journal: Journal of Statistical Software
  year: '2008'
  volume: '24'
  issue: '3'
  doi: 10.18637/jss.v024.i03
  start: '1'
  end: '29'
- type: article
  title: 'ergm 4: New Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family Random Graph Models'
  authors:
  - family-names: Krivitsky
    given-names: Pavel N.
  - family-names: Hunter
    given-names: David R.
  - family-names: Morris
    given-names: Martina
  - family-names: Klumb
    given-names: Chad
  journal: Journal of Statistical Software
  year: '2023'
  volume: '105'
  issue: '6'
  doi: 10.18637/jss.v105.i06
  start: '1'
  end: '44'