Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Random Generation of the Social Network with Several Communities

  • Received : 20110600
  • Accepted : 20110600
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

A community of the social network refers to the subset of nodes linked more densely among them than to others. In this study, we propose a Monte-Carlo method for generating random social unipartite and bipartite networks with two or more communities. Proposed random networks can be used to verify the small world phenomenon of the social networks with several communities.

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