CDatanet-package {CDatanet}

The CDatanet package

Description

The CDatanet package simulates and estimates peer effect models and network formation models. The class of peer effect models includes linear-in-means models (Lee, 2004; Lee et al., 2010), Tobit models (Xu and Lee, 2015), and discrete numerical data models (Houndetoungan, 2024). The network formation models include pair-wise regressions with degree heterogeneity (Graham, 2017; Yan et al., 2019) and exponential random graph models (Mele, 2017). To make the computations faster CDatanet uses C++ through the Rcpp package (Eddelbuettel et al., 2011).

Author(s)

Maintainer: Aristide Houndetoungan [e-mail]

References

Eddelbuettel, D., & Francois, R. (2011). Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ integration. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(8), 1-18, doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i08.

Houndetoungan, E. A. (2024). Count Data Models with Social Interactions under Rational Expectations. Available at SSRN 3721250, doi:10.2139/ssrn.3721250.

Lee, L. F. (2004). Asymptotic distributions of quasi-maximum likelihood estimators for spatial autoregressive models. Econometrica, 72(6), 1899-1925, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00558.x.

Lee, L. F., Liu, X., & Lin, X. (2010). Specification and estimation of social interaction models with network structures. The Econometrics Journal, 13(2), 145-176, doi:10.1111/j.1368-423X.2010.00310.x

Xu, X., & Lee, L. F. (2015). Maximum likelihood estimation of a spatial autoregressive Tobit model. Journal of Econometrics, 188(1), 264-280, doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.05.004.

Graham, B. S. (2017). An econometric model of network formation with degree heterogeneity. Econometrica, 85(4), 1033-1063, doi:10.3982/ECTA12679.

Mele, A. (2017). A structural model of dense network formation. Econometrica, 85(3), 825-850, doi:10.3982/ECTA10400.

Yan, T., Jiang, B., Fienberg, S. E., & Leng, C. (2019). Statistical inference in a directed network model with covariates. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114(526), 857-868, doi:10.1080/01621459.2018.1448829.

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ahoundetoungan/CDatanet

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ahoundetoungan/CDatanet/issues