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Pavel N. Krivitsky

@krivitsky.net
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Inveterate 🕸 modeller 𝑃(🦋; 𝜽) = 𝘩(🦋) exp{𝜼(𝜽) · 𝒔(🦋)} / 𝜅(𝜽) 👨🏻‍🏫 Statistics at UNSW 🇦🇺 👨🏻‍💻 10 #RStats 📦 ex-🪑 @ANSNA.org.au krivitsky.net statnet.org github.com/krivit

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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 26/02/2026
We (@angelaguerrero.bsky.social @michelelbarnes.bsky.social @krivitsky.net) are looking a number of #PhD and paid #ResearchAssistant positions to work on #SocialNetworkAnalysis for #DisasterPreparedness. Details and links below. Please share with anyone potentially interested.
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 18/02/2026
#rstats 📦 {ergm} 4.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It's mostly bug fixes and incremental improvements, but the one you're most likely to notice is that most long-running routines now provide nice progress bars via {cli}, so you aren't left hanging. Other major changes at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .
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R: NEWS file for the 'ergm' package
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 30/12/2025
#rstats 📦 {ergm} 4.11.0 is now on #CRAN. It looks like I never posted the highlights for the 4.10.0 release, so I'll just list them together. As always, major changes at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... . Enjoy!
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R: NEWS file for the 'ergm' package
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 22/09/2025
Initial release of #Rstats 📦 {piecemeal} for wrangling large simulation studies is now on #CRAN . A demo here: cran.r-project.org/package=piec... . I believe that brings me up to 10. 😅
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A Simulation Study using Piecemeal
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 12/09/2025
#rstats 📦 {latentnet} 2.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It implements a long-requested feature for fitting count networks (interactions, co-occurrences, etc.) using a binomial model. Different pairs of actors can now have different binomial "trials". Full news at cran.r-project.org/package=late... .
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 12/09/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 25/06/2025
To work around Whova app's apparent inability to actually tell you what talks (not sessions!) are coming up next, I've extracted the list of all upcoming @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social talks sorted by the talk's (not the session's!) start time: krivitsky.net/sunbelt2025/ . Feel free to share around.
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 11/06/2025
Version 1.1.3 of {ergm.ego}, a #rstats 📦 for #ergm modelling of #egodata, is now on #CRAN. This is mostly a bugfix and optimisation release. Details at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .
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R: NEWS file for the 'ergm.ego' package
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 11/06/2025
#ergm 4.9.0 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN . This release improves robustness, introduces or improves some valued ERGM terms, and provides a more flexible way to specify parameters and target statistics. As always, see cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .
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R: NEWS file for the 'ergm' package
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 03/06/2025
We're #hiring! This is a tenure-track #job in a #spatial #statistics cluster at #UNSW Maths & Stats. Applications close soon (1 July, Australian time!), so please share this with the spatial statisticians in your life! See external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... for details.
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Spatial Statistics
The Lecturer (Level B or Senior Lecturer (Level C) will conduct high quality research and is expected to carry out activities to develop their scholarly research and professional activities both natio...
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 30/05/2025
Next #rstats 📦 up on #CRAN is {statnet.common} 4.12.0. It is, as always, a hodgepodge of functions and methods used throughout the #statnet project packages. @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy contributed to this release. Release notes are, as always, at cran.r-project.org/web/packages... .
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NEWS
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 30/05/2025
{rle} 0.10.0 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN. {rle} aims to make run-length-encoded objects from base::rle() transparently behave as if they were the vectors they encode for arithmetic, indexing, summary, and other purposes. This release introduces subsetting by positive numeric indices.
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 14/04/2025
While setting up yet another large #simulationstudy in which some replications result in an error, the total runtime is not completely predictable for an #HPC #parallelcomputing job, etc., I drafted an #rstats package for wrangling such simulations: github.com/krivit/piece... . Feedback appreciated!
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GitHub - krivit/piecemeal: An R package for wrangling large simulations
An R package for wrangling large simulations. Contribute to krivit/piecemeal development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 19/03/2025
🚨 New CRAN Task View: Network Analysis #rstats #dataviz By Fabio Ashtar Telarico, Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net, James Hollway @jhollway.bsky.social URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Network...
Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Network Analysis" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=NetworkAnalysis
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Australian Network for Social Network Analysis @ansna.org.au · 12/03/2025
Save the date for the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference 2025! When: 27-28 November 2025 (Workshops 26 November) Where: Byron Bay | Arakwal Bumberlin Country, NSW, Australia Venue: Byron Bay Community Centre Theater, 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay #ASNAC2025 #Socialnetworkanalysis
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 29/01/2025
With abstract deadline for @insna.bsky.social Sunbelt2025.org conference coming up, Michael Schweinberger, Johan Koskinen, and I are welcoming submission to our organised session on Sampled and Missing Network Data. (See assets.noviams.com/novi-file-up... for description.)
Sampled and Missing Network Data
Pavel N. Krivitsky, Michael Schweinberger, Johan Koskinen

In network analysis, it is common to assume that the data are complete and constitute a census of both actors in the social setting of interest and the relationships of interest among the actors. However, it is also common for the population of interest to be large and not practical to observe or model as a whole, that is, for some actors and relations to be incompletely observed, by design, unintentionally, or because they do not wish to be.

This session concerns advances in methods for analysis of networks with sampled or missing relations and/or nodal attributes, particularly when those relations, nodal attributes and/or their statistics are the target of inference.
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Australian Network for Social Network Analysis @ansna.org.au · 29/01/2025
Australian Network for Social Network Analysis is now on @bsky.app. Follow us for news about #networks down under! #SocialNetworks #SNA #SocialNetworkAnalysis #NetworkScience
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 21/01/2025
#ergm 4.8.1 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN, the first release since I started posting to @bsky.app. This release brings some interesting new network statistics, as well as bug fixes and API streamlining. As always, see cran.r-project.org/web/packages....
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 01/01/2025
New year, new web site! After 3 years of neglect, I rewrote my krivitsky.net home page into something hopefully nicer looking, better organised, and more maintainable. A big thank you to everybody who provided feedback on earlier versions!
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Pavel N. Krivitsky
I work with statisticians, social scientists, and epidemiologists to develop powerful techniques for understanding and predicting social structure, and I develop flexible and user-friendly open-source...
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 23/12/2024
A product of an unexpected collaboration with @dddtc.bsky.social, David Krackhardt, and Pat Doreian (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) gets a press release. An excuse to name-check Jaynes (1957) was a nice bonus.
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Balance correlations, agentic zeros, and networks: The structure of 192 years of war and peace
Social network extensions of Heider’s balance theory have led to a plethora of adaptations, often inconsistent with Heider and each other. We present a general model that permits the description and t...
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Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net · 06/12/2024
It appears that the 256 character limit for profiles has brought out my inner rebus composer.
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