Hi everyone Instats is excited to offer a 2-day seminar, Advanced Network Analysis: Exponential Random Graphs <https://instats.org/seminar/advanced-network-analysis-exponential-ra>, livestreaming September 1–3 and led by Dr. Basak Taraktas. Traditional network metrics often fall short when researchers want to move from describing relational structures to explaining the social mechanisms that create them; Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) fill this gap by modeling networks as outcomes of local configurations and nodal attributes while properly addressing interdependence in the data. Across two intensive days you will gain a firm conceptual grounding in ERGMs, learn to estimate models via maximum likelihood and MCMC in R, diagnose convergence and degeneracy, and interpret coefficients that capture homophily, transitivity, activity, popularity, and more. Hands-on labs—featuring a case study on Ottoman revolutionaries—guide you through loading network data, specifying and fitting ERGMs with the ergm package, assessing goodness-of-fit through simulation, and extending analyses to nodal covariates or temporal settings. Whether your research revolves around friendship formation, legislative co-sponsorship, disease transmission, or intra-organizational collaboration, this seminar equips you with publishable techniques for uncovering the generative processes behind complex networks.
This seminar is one of a 2-part course on Network Analysis: Introductory and Advanced <https://instats.org/course/network-analysis-introductory--advance2>. When the full 2-part course is purchased, participants automatically receive a 10% discount on both seminars. Sign up today to secure your spot, and please share this opportunity with colleagues and students who might benefit! Best wishes Michael Zyphur Professor and Director Institute for Statistical and Data Science https://instats.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Epi@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-epi
