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ergm (version 3.1.3)

control.san: Auxiliary for Controlling SAN

Description

Auxiliary function as user interface for fine-tuning simulated annealing algorithm.

Usage

control.san(coef=NULL,
            SAN.tau=1,
            SAN.invcov=NULL,
            SAN.burnin=100000,
            SAN.interval=10000,
            SAN.init.maxedges=20000,
                      
            SAN.prop.weights="default",
            SAN.prop.args=list(),
            SAN.packagenames=c(),
            MPLE.samplesize = 50000,
            network.output="network",
            seed=NULL,
            parallel=0,
            parallel.type=NULL,
            parallel.version.check=TRUE)

Arguments

coef
Vector of model coefficients used for MCMC simulations, one for each model term.
SAN.tau
Currently unused.
SAN.invcov
Initial inverse covariance matrix used to calculate Mahalanobis distance in determining how far a proposed MCMC move is from the target.stats vector. If NULL, taken to be the covariance matrix returned when fitting the MPLE
SAN.burnin
Number of MCMC proposals before any sampling is done.
SAN.interval
Number of proposals between sampled statistics.
SAN.init.maxedges
Maximum number of edges expected in network.
SAN.prop.weights
Specifies the method to allocate probabilities of being proposed to dyads. Defaults to "default", which picks a reasonable default for the specified constraint. Other possible values are "TNT", "random"
SAN.prop.args
An alternative, direct way of specifying additional arguments to proposal.
SAN.packagenames
Names of packages in which to look for change statistic functions in addition to those autodetected. This argument should not be needed outside of very strange setups.
MPLE.samplesize
Not currently documented; used in conditional-on-degree version of MPLE.
network.output
R class with which to output networks. The options are "network" (default) and "edgelist.compressed" (which saves space but only supports networks without vertex attributes)
seed
Seed value (integer) for the random number generator. See set.seed
parallel
Number of threads in which to run the sampling. Defaults to 0 (no parallelism). See the entry on parallel processing for details and troubleshooting.
parallel.type
API to use for parallel processing. Supported values are "MPI" and "SOCK". Defaults to using the snow package default.
parallel.version.check
Logical: If TRUE, check that the version of ergm running on the slave nodes is the same as that running on the master node.

Value

  • A list with arguments as components.

Details

This function is only used within a call to the san function. See the usage section in san for details.

See Also

san