R: Number of ties between actors with similar attribute values

smalldiff-ergmTerm {ergm} | R Documentation

## Number of ties between actors with similar attribute values

### Description

This term adds one statistic, having as its value the number of edges in the network for which the incident actors' attribute values differ less than `cutoff` ; that is, number of edges between `i` to `j` such that `abs(attr[i]-attr[j])<cutoff` .

### Usage

    # binary: smalldiff(attr, cutoff)

### Arguments

`attr` | quantitative attribute (see Specifying Vertex attributes and Levels (`?nodal_attributes`) for details.)
`maximum` | difference in attribute values for ties to be considered

### See Also

`ergmTerm` for index of model terms currently visible to the package.

[Package ergm version 4.2.2 Index]