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Chapter 24 - Uncertainty quantification and error analysis

from Part III - Fundamentals

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James Bagrow
Affiliation:
University of Vermont
Yong‐Yeol Ahn
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
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Summary

As we have seen, network data are necessarily imperfect. Missing and spurious nodes and edges can create uncertainty in what the observed data tell us about the original network. In this chapter, we dive deeper into tools that allow us to quantify such effects and probe more deeply into the nature of an unseen network from our observations. The fundamental challenge of measurement error in network data is capturing the error-producing mechanism accurately and then inferring the unseen network from the (imperfectly) observed data. Computational approaches can give us clues and insights, as can mathematical models. Mathematical models can also build up methods of statistical inference, whether in estimating parameters describing a model of the network or estimating the networks structure itself. But such methods quickly become intractable without taking on some possibly severe assumptions, such as edge independence. Yet, even without addressing the full problem of network inference, in this chapter, we show valuable ways to explore features of the unseen network, such as its size, using the available data.

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Working with Network Data
A Data Science Perspective
, pp. 377 - 396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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