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- ERGM: What Creates Network Structure?

Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) go beyond descriptive statistics and visualization, offering a powerful framework for statistically testing the fundamental mechanisms behind network formation.

Here, we highlight the types of research questions that ERGM can address across a wide range of fields, including sociology, education, political science, public policy, management, economics, criminology, ecology, neuroscience, the humanities, and sports science.

The examples below assume networks that are directed, binary (unweighted), and single mode (one mode) as input data.

The research questions presented here are illustrative rather than exhaustive. ERGM can be applied to many additional questions depending on the research context and network structure.

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