This paper deals with non-observed dyads during the sampling of a network and
consecutive issues in the inference of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). We
review sampling designs and recover Missing At Random (MAR) and Not Missing At
Random (NMAR) conditions for the SBM. We introduce variants of the variational
EM algorithm for inferring the SBM under various sampling designs (MAR and
NMAR) all available as an R package. Model selection criteria based on
Integrated Classification Likelihood are derived for selecting both the number
of blocks and the sampling design. We investigate the accuracy and the range of
applicability of these algorithms with simulations. We explore two real-world
networks from ethnology (seed circulation network) and biology (protein-protein
interaction network), where the interpretations considerably depends on the
sampling designs considered
