Finding statistically significant communities in networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lancichinetti, Andrea ^a,b   Radicchi, Filippo ^c   Ramasco, José J ^a,d   Fortunato, Santo ^a  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORDER STATISTICS LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79955707583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018961     Document Type: Article

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