‘ergm.rank’ is part of the Statnet suite of packages. If you are using the ‘ergm.rank’ package for research that will be published, we request that you acknowledge this by citing the following. For BibTeX format, use toBibtex(citation("ergm.rank")).

Krivitsky PN (2025). ergm.rank: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Rank-Order Relational Data. The Statnet Project (https://statnet.org). R package version 4.1.2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm.rank.

Handcock MS, Hunter DR, Butts CT, Goodreau SM, Krivitsky PN, Morris M (2025). ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks. The Statnet Project (https://statnet.org). R package version 4.10.1-7847, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm.

Krivitsky PN, Hunter DR, Morris M, Klumb C (2023). “ergm 4: New Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family Random Graph Models.” Journal of Statistical Software, 105(6), 1–44. doi:10.18637/jss.v105.i06.

Krivitsky P, Butts C (2017). “Exponential-family Random Graph Models for Rank-order Relational Data.” Sociological Methodology, 47(1), 68-112. doi:10.1177/0081175017692623.

We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating the Statnet suite of packages for use by other researchers. Please cite it in all papers where it is used. The package ‘ergm.rank’ is distributed under the terms of the license GPL-3 + file LICENSE.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    author = {Pavel N. Krivitsky},
    title = {ergm.rank: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family
      Models for Rank-Order Relational Data},
    organization = {The Statnet Project (\url{https://statnet.org})},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 4.1.2},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm.rank},
  }

  @Manual{,
    author = {Mark S. Handcock and David R. Hunter and Carter T. Butts
      and Steven M. Goodreau and Pavel N. Krivitsky and Martina
      Morris},
    title = {ergm: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models
      for Networks},
    organization = {The Statnet Project (\url{https://statnet.org})},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 4.10.1-7847},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ergm},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {{ergm} 4: New Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family
      Random Graph Models},
    author = {Pavel N. Krivitsky and David R. Hunter and Martina Morris
      and Chad Klumb},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {105},
    number = {6},
    pages = {1--44},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v105.i06},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Exponential-family Random Graph Models for Rank-order
      Relational Data},
    author = {Pavel N. Krivitsky and Carter T. Butts},
    doi = {10.1177/0081175017692623},
    journal = {Sociological Methodology},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {47},
    number = {1},
    pages = {68-112},
  }