merge.ergmm {latentnet}

Merge two or more replications of ERGMM fits

Description

A merge method for ergmm objects, constructing an ergmm object containing the combined MCMC output (and derived estimates) of several ergmm objects produced with the same input parameters but different starting values, random seeds, etc..

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ergmm'
merge(x, y, ..., verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

x

The first ergmm object to be merged.

y

The second ergmm object to be merged.

...

Additional ergmm objects to be merged.

verbose

If TRUE, marks the progress of merging.

Value

An object of class ergmm.

See Also

ergmm.object, ergmm

Examples

data(sampson)
# Run two short MCMC-based fits.
samp.fit1 <- ergmm(samplike ~ euclidean(d=2, G=3),
  control=ergmm.control(burnin=1000,interval=10,sample.size=2000))
samp.fit2 <- ergmm(samplike ~ euclidean(d=2, G=3),
  control=ergmm.control(burnin=1000,interval=10,sample.size=2000))

# Combine them, and summarize the result.
samp.fit <-  merge(samp.fit1,samp.fit2)
summary(samp.fit)