title: Structural inference for uncertain networks.
abstract: In the study of networked systems such as biological, technological, and social networks the available data are often uncertain. Rather than knowing the structure of a network exactly, we know the connections between nodes only with a certain probability. In this paper we develop methods for the analysis of such uncertain data, focusing particularly on the problem of community detection. We give a principled maximum-likelihood method for inferring community structure and demonstrate how the results can be used to make improved estimates of the true structure of the network. Using computer-generated benchmark networks we demonstrate that our methods are able to reconstruct known communities more accurately than previous approaches based on data thresholding. We also give an example application to the detection of communities in a protein-protein interaction network.
authors: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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authors: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.|Quicken Loans, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
authors: Brian
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authors: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.|Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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