Manual for RSiena

Abstract

SIENA (for Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis) is a computer program that carries out the statistical estimation of models for the evolution of social networks according to the dynamic actor-oriented model of Snijders (2001, 2005), Snijders et al. (2007), and Snijders et al. (2010a). This is the manual for RSiena, a contributed package to the statistical system R. It complements, but does not replace the help pages for the RSiena functions! It also contains contributions written earlier, for the manual for SIENA version 3, by Mark Huisman, Michael Schweinberger, and Christian Steglich. This manual is frequently updated, mostly only in a minor way. This version was renewed for RSiena version 1.1-301.