A Statnet Tutorial

Journal of Statistical SoftwareJSSMMMMMM YYYY, Volume VV, Issue II. http://www.jstatsoft.org/A Statnet TutorialSteven M. Goodreau Mark S. HandcockUniversity of Washington University of WashingtonDavid R. HunterPenn State UniversityCarter T. Butts Martina MorrisUniversity of California, Irvine University of WashingtonAbstractThestatnetsuiteof Rpackagescontainsawiderangeoffunctionalityforthestatisticalanalysis of social networks, including the implementation of exponential-family randomgraph (ERG) models. In this paper we illustrate some of the functionality of statnetthrough a tutorial analysis of a friendship network of 1,461 adolescents.Keywords:relationaldata,socialnetworks, exponential-familyrandomgraphmodels, statnet,R.1. IntroductionStatnet comprises a suite of R (R Development Core Team 2007) packages for the analysisof social networks and other relational data. Previous papers in this issue describe in detailthe functionality for most of these packages, and the underlying statistical theory behind it.In this paper we illustrate some of the functionality of three core packages within the statnetsuite — network, sna, and ergm — through a tutorial-based analysis of a friendship networkwith 1,461 vertices.Readers of a more methodical nature may wish to examine the rest of the papers in this issuefirst. For those who do wish to tackle the tutorial early on, and do not have much familiaritywithstatisticalnetworkmodels ...