Corpus ID: 230799589

Disentangling homophily, community structure and triadic closure in networks

@article{Peixoto2021DisentanglingHC,
  title={Disentangling homophily, community structure and triadic closure in networks},
  author={Tiago P. Peixoto},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2101.02510}
}

• Tiago P. Peixoto
• Published 2021
• Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics
• ArXiv

Network homophily, the tendency of similar nodes to be connected, and transitivity, the tendency of two nodes being connected if they share a common neighbor, are conflated properties in network analysis, since one mechanism can drive the other. Here we present a generative model and corresponding inference procedure that is capable of distinguishing between both mechanisms. Our approach is based on a variation of the stochastic block model (SBM) with the addition of triadic closure edges, and… Expand

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