For , define the class degree sum
and define the number of within-college friendships by
Each between-college edge contributes once to the degree sum of each endpoint's college, while each within-college edge contributes twice to its college's degree sum. The model-3 likelihood can therefore be written
The Fisher-Neyman factorization theorem shows that is sufficient.
For two networks , the likelihood ratio is
Because the parameters range independently over , this ratio is constant in exactly when every displayed difference vanishes. The likelihood-ratio criterion for minimal sufficiency therefore gives the answer
This is the degree-sum sufficient statistic for an additive logistic network model.