🔹 finally out:
"Scale-free networks are rare"
We thoroughly test the empirical ubiquity of 'scale-free networks' using a huge networks corpus, multiple evidence classes, and reliable stats tools
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"Scale-free networks are rare"
We thoroughly test the empirical ubiquity of 'scale-free networks' using a huge networks corpus, multiple evidence classes, and reliable stats tools
real networks are far more structurally diverse than claims of 'universality' can cover. We don't know what creates this diversity, but probably not any single mechanism. These findings bolster the need for new work figuring what mechanisms structure real networks.
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Nature Communications
Scale-free networks are rare
Real-world networks are often said to be ”scale free”, meaning their degree distribution follows a power law. Broido and Clauset perform statistical tests of this claim using a large and diverse corpus of real-world networks, showing that scale-free structure…