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Estimation of global network statistics from incomplete data

C. A. Bliss, C. M. Danforth, and P. S. Dodds

PLoS ONE, 9, e108471, 2014

Times cited: 41

Abstract:

Complex networks underlie an enormous variety of social, biological, physical, and virtual systems. A profound complication for the science of complex networks is that in most cases, observing all nodes and all network interactions is impossible. Yet previous work addressing the impacts of partial network data is surprisingly limited, focuses primarily on missing nodes, and suggests that network statistics derived from subsampled data are not suitable estimators for the same network statistics describing the overall network topology. Our aim here is to generate scaling methods to predict true network statistics from only partial knowledge of nodes, links, or weights. We validate analytical results on four simulated network classes and empirical data sets of various sizes. We perform subsampling experiments by varying proportions of sampled data and demonstrate that our scaling methods can provide very good estimates of true network statistics while acknowledging limits. Lastly, we apply our techniques to a set of rich and evolving large-scale social networks, Twitter reply networks. Based on 100 million tweets, we use our scaling techniques to propose a statistical characterization of the Twitter Interactome from September 2008 to February 2009. Our treatment allows us to find support for Dunbar's hypothesis in detecting an upper maintain over the course of one week.
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BibTeX:

@Article{bliss2014a,
  author =	 {Bliss, Catherine A. and
                  Danforth, Christopher M. and Dodds, Peter Sheridan},
  title =	 {Estimation of global network statistics from incomplete data},
  journal =      {PLoS ONE},
  year =	 {2014},
  volume =       {9},
  pages =        {e108471},
  key =		 {networks,prediction},
}

 

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