Figure 2
From: Cues to gender and racial identity reduce creativity in diverse social networks
Intuition behind STERGMs. To capture the formation and persistence dynamics of the links, two separate models are fitted for the temporal networks of each study condition. The formation model tracks links that do not exist in time t, but exist in time \(t+1\), e.g., the green link between ego \(e_1\) and alter \(a_4\). The persistence model considers links that exist in both time instances, e.g., all grey links. Since the egos had to follow a constant number of two alters, the red link \(e_1-a_2\) needed to dissolve to allow the green link to form. However, if a link does not persist, it must dissolve—thus, the dissolution effects are captured in the persistence model and we need not fit a separate model for dissolution.
