Conditional Marginalization for Exponential Random Graph Models

Journal article

For exponential random graph models, under quite general conditions, it is proved that induced subgraphs on node sets disconnected from the other nodes still have distributions from an exponential random graph model. This can help in the theor-etical interpretation of such models. An application is that for saturated snowball samples from a potentially larger graph which is a realization of an exponential random graph model, it is possible to do the analysis of the observed snowball sample wi...

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Authors: Snijders, T

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 239-252
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/0022250X.2010.485707
• EISSN: 1545-5882
• ISSN: 0022-250X
• Language: English
• Keywords: random graphs; network boundary; network delineation; snowball sample; connected component