title: Constructing and Modifying Sequence Statistics for relevent Using informR in 𝖱.
abstract: TheinformRpackage greatly simplifies the analysis of complex event histories in 𝖱 by providing user friendly tools to build sufficient statistics for thereleventpackage. Historically, building sufficient statistics to model event sequences (of the forma→b) using the egocentric generalization of Butts' (2008)relational event frameworkfor modeling social action has been cumbersome. TheinformRpackage simplifies the construction of the complex list of arrays needed by the rem() model fitting for a variety of cases involving egocentric event data, multiple event types, and/or support constraints. This paper introduces these tools using examples from real data extracted from the American Time Use Survey.
authors.affiliation: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America.
authors.forename: Christopher Steven
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Marcum
authors.affiliation: Departments of Sociology, Statistics, and EECS, and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America.
authors.forename: Carter T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Butts
keywords: relational events; relevent; sequence statistics