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community detection: a standalone construct

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communitydetection1 CONSTRUCTCommunity detection GIRVAN · NETWORK SCIENCE

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Network science

finding groups of nodes that are densely linked internally and sparsely linked to the rest of a network.

In network science, community detection refers to finding groups of nodes that are densely linked internally and sparsely linked to the rest of a network. This meaning comes from Girvan (2002) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

  1. Girvan, M., & Newman, M. E. J. (2002). Community structure in social and biological networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(12), 7821-7826. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.122653799

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