R: Internal Function to Perform Simulated Annealing

ergm_SAN_slave {ergm} | R Documentation

## Internal Function to Perform Simulated Annealing

### Description

This is an internal function, not normally called directly by the user. The `ergm_SAN_slave` function samples networks and network statistics using a simulated annealing (SAN) algorithm via `SAN_wrapper`.

### Usage

    ergm_SAN_slave(
      state,
      tau,
      control,
      verbose,
      ...,
      nsteps = NULL,
      samplesize = NULL,
      statindices = NULL,
      offsetindices = NULL,
      offsets = NULL
    )

### Arguments

`state` | an `ergm_state` representing the sampler state, containing information about the network, the model, the proposal, and current statistics.
`tau` | a scalar; temperature to use; higher temperature means more proposals that "worsen" the statistics are accepted.
`control` | A list of control parameters for algorithm tuning, typically constructed with `control.san()`. Its documentation gives the the list of recognized control parameters and their meaning. The more generic utility `snctrl()` (StatNet ConTRoL) also provides argument completion for the available control functions and limited argument name checking.
`verbose` | A logical or an integer to control the amount of progress and diagnostic information to be printed. `FALSE`/`0` produces minimal output, wit higher values producing more detail. Note that very high values (5+) may significantly slow down processing.
`...` | additional arguments, currently unused.
`nsteps` | an integer; number of SAN proposals.
`samplesize` | an integer; number of network statistics to return.
`statindices, offsetindices, offsets` | specification for offset handling; see `san.formula()` implementation.

[Package ergm version 4.2.1 Index]