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Centrality measures for graphons: Accounting for uncertainty in networks
As relational datasets modeled as graphs keep increasing in size and their
data-acquisition is permeated by uncertainty, graph-based analysis techniques
can become computationally and conceptually challenging. In particular, node
centrality measures rely on the assumption that the graph is perfectly known --
a premise not necessarily fulfilled for large, uncertain networks. Accordingly,
centrality measures may fail to faithfully extract the importance of nodes in
the presence of uncertainty. To mitigate these problems, we suggest a
statistical approach based on graphon theory: we introduce formal definitions
of centrality measures for graphons and establish their connections to
classical graph centrality measures. A key advantage of this approach is that
centrality measures defined at the modeling level of graphons are inherently
robust to stochastic variations of specific graph realizations. Using the
theory of linear integral operators, we define degree, eigenvector, Katz and
PageRank centrality functions for graphons and establish concentration
inequalities demonstrating that graphon centrality functions arise naturally as
limits of their counterparts defined on sequences of graphs of increasing size.
The same concentration inequalities also provide high-probability bounds
between the graphon centrality functions and the centrality measures on any
sampled graph, thereby establishing a measure of uncertainty of the measured
centrality score. The same concentration inequalities also provide
high-probability bounds between the graphon centrality functions and the
centrality measures on any sampled graph, thereby establishing a measure of
uncertainty of the measured centrality score.Comment: Authors ordered alphabetically, all authors contributed equally. 21
pages, 7 figure
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Centrality in children's best friend networks: the role of social behaviour
Centrality is an indicator of an individual's relative importance within a social group. Predictors of centrality in best friendship networks were examined in 146 children (70 boys, 76 girls, Mage= 9.95). Children completed measures of social confidence, social desirability, friendship quality, school liking, and loneliness, and nominated their best friends from within their class at two time points, 3 months apart. Multigroup path analysis revealed gender differences in the antecedents of centrality. Social confidence, social desirability, and friendship quality predicted changes in the indicators of centrality in best friend networks over time. In boys’ social behaviour positively predicted changes in centrality whereas in girls’ social behaviour negatively predicted changes in centrality. Together, these findings suggest that some aspects of social behaviour are influential for centrality in best friend groups
Numerical Investigation of Metrics for Epidemic Processes on Graphs
This study develops the epidemic hitting time (EHT) metric on graphs
measuring the expected time an epidemic starting at node in a fully
susceptible network takes to propagate and reach node . An associated EHT
centrality measure is then compared to degree, betweenness, spectral, and
effective resistance centrality measures through exhaustive numerical
simulations on several real-world network data-sets. We find two surprising
observations: first, EHT centrality is highly correlated with effective
resistance centrality; second, the EHT centrality measure is much more
delocalized compared to degree and spectral centrality, highlighting the role
of peripheral nodes in epidemic spreading on graphs.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables, In Proceedings of 2015 Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computer
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