Objective Food insecurity is a significant and growing concern undermining the wellbeing of
30% of the global population. Food in/security is a complex construct consisting of four …

Advances in information technology have increased the availability of time-stamped
relational data, such as those produced by email exchanges or interaction through social …

The ergm package supports the statistical analysis and simulation of network data. It
anchors the statnet suite of packages for network analysis in R introduced in a special issue …

The stochastic exploration of the configuration space and the exploitation of functional states
underlie many biological processes. The evolutionary dynamics stands out as a remarkable …

Network datasets typically exhibit certain types of statistical patterns, such as within-dyad
correlation, degree heterogeneity, and triadic patterns such as transitivity and clustering. The …

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a routinely used vaccine for protecting children against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis that comprises attenuated Mycobacterium bovis. BCG can also …

Statistical models for social networks, such as exponential random graphs (ERGMs), have
increasingly been used by organizational scholars to study the social interactions inside …

Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are widely used for modeling social networks
observed at one point in time. However the computational difficulty of ERGM parameter …

How do individuals' network selection decisions create unique network structures? Despite
broad sociological interest in the micro-level social interactions that create macro-level …

The brain is a highly complex system. Most of such complexity stems from the intermingled
connections between its parts, which give rise to rich dynamics and to the emergence of …