Statistical inference of assortative community structures

• Published in: Physical review research Vol. 2; no. 4; p. 043271
• Main Authors: Zhang, Lizhi, Peixoto, Tiago P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 23.11.2020

We develop a principled methodology to infer assortative communities in networks based on a nonparametric Bayesian formulation of the planted partition model. We show that this approach succeeds in finding statistically significant assortative modules in networks, unlike alternatives such as modular...