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clustAnalytics: An R Package for Assessing Stability and Significance of Communities in Networks.
- Source :
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R Journal . Jun2023, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p134-144. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper introduces the R package clustAnalytics, which comprises a set of criteria for assessing the significance and stability of communities in networks found by any clustering algorithm. clustAnalytics works with graphs of class igraph from the R-package igraph, extended to handle weighted and/or directed graphs. clustAnalytics provides a set of community scoring functions, and methods to systematically compare their values to those of a suitable null model, which are of use when testing for cluster significance. It also provides a non parametric bootstrap method combined with similarity metrics derived from information theory and combinatorics, useful when testing for cluster stability, as well as a method to synthetically generate a weighted network with a ground truth community structure based on the preferential attachment model construction, producing networks with communities and scale-free degree distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734859
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- R Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173600251
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.32614/rj-2023-057