Welcome to the XXXIX Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Here are some conference-related information... There are more on the Conference Website (you can download some helpful documents directly from the home page, under ’’Shared Files’’). WiFi: Network: Visiteurs UQAM User name: asunbelt2019 Password: DQ32fK23 OR EDUROAM is also available everywhere in all UQAM Buildings. There is also a Public WIFI Network in Downtown Montréal: MTL-WIFI (see here for more details). RESTAURANTS There is no lack of good restaurants and bars near the Conference venue and in Montréal globally. Download the pdf file for a few suggestions (under ’’Shared Files’’ on the website).
This workshop will provide a hands-on tutorial on the estimation and simulation of dynamic networks with Temporal Exponential-Family Random Graph Models (TERGMs) using the 'tergm' package in statnet. TERGMs can be used for both estimation from and simulation of dynamic network data. The topics covered in this workshop include exploratory data analysis with temporal network data (using the statnet packages tsna for descriptive statistics and ndtv to create network movies), model estimation (from network panel data, a single cross-sectional network with link duration information, and cross-sectional, egocentrically sampled network data), model diagnostics, and simulating dynamic networks from fitted models. These methods can be used with both fixed and changing node sets. statnet is an open source collection of integrated packages for the R statistical computing environment that support the representation, manipulation, visualization, modeling, simulation, and analysis of network data.
