Measuring the robustness of network community structure using assortativity

• Published in: Animal behaviour Vol. 112; pp. 237 - 246
• Main Authors: Shizuka, Daizaburo, Farine, Damien R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2016; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd; Academic Press
• Subjects: Animal behavior; birds; Bootstrap method; bootstrapping; community detection; Community structure; data collection; flock; golden-crowned sparrow; humans; modularity; Sampling; social network; social networks; thornbill; tit; social network; bootstrapping; flock; golden-crowned sparrow; modularity; thornbill; community detection; tit

The existence of discrete social clusters, or ‘communities’, is a common feature of social networks in human and nonhuman animals. The level of such community structure in networks is typically measured using an index of modularity, Q. While modularity quantifies the degree to which individuals asso...