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R: Merge two or more replications of ERGMM fits

merge.ergmm

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Merge two or more replications of ERGMM fits

Description

merge.ergmm prodcues a ergmm object containing the combined MCMC output (and derived estimates) of several ergmm objects produced with the same input parameters but different starting values, random seeds, etc..

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ergmm'
merge(x, y, ..., verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	The first `ergmm` object to be merged.
`y`	The second `ergmm` object to be merged.
`...`	Additional `ergmm` objects to be merged.
`verbose`	If `TRUE`, marks the progress of merging.

Value

An object of class ergmm.

Examples


data(sampson)
# Run two short MCMC-based fits.
samp.fit1 <- ergmm(samplike ~ euclidean(d=2, G=3),
  control=ergmm.control(burnin=1000,interval=10,sample.size=2000))
samp.fit2 <- ergmm(samplike ~ euclidean(d=2, G=3),
  control=ergmm.control(burnin=1000,interval=10,sample.size=2000))

# Combine them, and summarize the result.
samp.fit <-  merge.ergmm(samp.fit1,samp.fit2)
summary(samp.fit)