Markov Fields

This paper presents recent advances in the statistical modeling of random graphs that have an impact on the empirical study of social networks. Statistical exponential family models (Wasserman and Pattison 1996) are a generalization of the Markov …

The primary objective of this paper is to describe some recent advances in the modeling of random graphs that have an impact on the representation of sexual and drug use networks. We also investigate issues related to the estimation of random graph …