This function specifies the input for the average effect in the formula argument for the function remulateTie or remulateActor. Not to be used independently
average(param = NULL, variable, attr_actors, scaling = c("none", "std"))List with all information required by `remulate::remulateTie()` or 'remulate::remulateActor()' to compute the statistic.
numeric value, data.frame or function with time parameter. Specifies the value of the effect for the statistic in the REM model
character vector specifies the name of the column with covariate value in attr_actors data.frame
data.frame object with rows specifying values of attr_actors for an actor. First column must contain actor id, Second column time when covariate value changes (default zero if no change), Third column contains values for the attributes with column name corresponding to variable name
specifies the method for scaling the statistic. "none" [default] gives raw value of the statistic at time t, "std" the statistic is standardized per time
Dyadic covariate: average attribute value for dyad (i,j) is the average of the attribute values for actors i, j
if param is a data frame, it must have three columns: sender, receiver, and value (numeric), representing the parameter value for thay dyadic pair. The data.frame must contain all pairs of actors or dyads corresponding to the riskset.
if param is a function, it's first argument must be 't', corresponding to the time. The function may have additional arguments.