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 an introduction to analyzing egocentrically sampled data with exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs) for statistical network analysis. It will be a hands-on workshop demonstrating how to fit, diagnose and simulate both static and dynamic ERG models from such data, using the 'ergm.ego' package, part of the integrated statnet software collection in R. Topics covered in this session include: a review of approaches to analyzing egocentrically sampled data, an overview of the statistical theory that supports the use of ERGMs for egocentric samples; defining and fitting ERGMs to egocentric data; interpretation of model coefficients; goodness-of-fit and model adequacy checking; and simulation of complete networks from the specified ERG models. 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.
