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receive
Description
Specifies the statistic for a "receive" effect in the tie-oriented model or the receiver choice step of the actor-oriented model. A "receive" effect refers to an exogenous actor attribute that affects actor i's rate of receiving events.
Usage
receive(variable, attr_actors = NULL, scaling = c("none", "std"), attr_data)
Arguments
variable |
string with the name of the column in the
|
attr_actors |
optionally, an object of class
|
scaling |
the method for scaling the statistic. Default is to not scale the statistic. Alternatively, standardization of the statistic per time point can be requested with "std". |
attr_data |
Deprecated argument. Please use 'attr_actors' instead. |
Details
The statistic at timepoint t is equal to the value of the exogenous attribute for actor i at time t for all dyads in the riskset that have actor i as receiver. Note that a "receive" effect is only defined for directed relational events.
Construct the 'attr_actors' object as a data frame where each row represents the attribute value of actor i at timepoint t:
name: The actors' name.
time: The time when the attribute values change.
variable: The third column contains the attribute used in the specification of the "difference" effect. The column name should correspond to the string supplied to the
variable
argument in the 'difference()' function.
Note that it is possible to omit the 'attr_actors' object in the call of
difference()
and, instead, supply it in the call of remstats()
for multiple exogenous effects.
Value
List with all information required by 'remstats::remstats()' to compute the statistic.
Examples
data(history)
data(info)
# Tie-oriented model
reh_tie <- remify::remify(history, model = "tie")
effects <- ~ receive("extraversion")
remstats(reh = reh_tie, tie_effects = effects, attr_actors = info)
# Actor-oriented model
reh_actor <- remify::remify(history, model = "actor")
remstats(reh = reh_actor, receiver_effects = effects, attr_actors = info)