remstimate - Optimization Frameworks for Tie-Oriented and Actor-Oriented
Relational Event Models
Tools for fitting, diagnosing, and analyzing tie-oriented
and actor-oriented relational event models, under both
frequentist and Bayesian approaches. The package supports
tie-oriented modeling (Butts, 2008,
<doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2008.00203.x>) and an actor-oriented
modeling framework (Stadtfeld et al., 2017,
<doi:10.15195/v4.a14>), with additional model diagnostics and
goodness-of-fit tools. Interfaces to estimation backends
provide a range of extensions: random-effects (frailty)
relational event models capturing sender, receiver, and dyadic
heterogeneity (Juozaitiene & Wit 2024,
<doi:10.1007/s11336-024-09952-x>; Mulder & Hoff, 2024,
<doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1885>), finite mixture and dyadic latent
class models for unobserved dyadic heterogeneity (Lakdawala et
al., 2026, <doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2026.06.006>), penalized
estimation via the lasso, ridge, and elastic net (Tibshirani,
R., 1996, <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1996.tb02080.x>; Karimova et
al., 2023, <doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2023.02.006>), and approximate
Bayesian regularization (Karimova et al., 2025,
<doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2025.102925>). Modeling of events with a
duration is also supported (Lakdawala et al., 2026,
<doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.21000>) and moving window relational
event models (Mulder & Leenders, 2019,
<doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2018.11.027>; Meijerink et al., 2023,
<doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0272309>).