Likelihood Ratio Test for Stochastic Block Models with Bounded Degrees

Likelihood Ratio Test for Stochastic Block Models with Bounded Degrees

Neyman Seminar
Aug 29, 2018, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Yang Feng, Columbia University
A fundamental problem in network data analysis is to test whether a network contains statistical significant communities. We study this problem in the stochastic block model context by testing H0: Erdos-Renyi model vs. H1: stochastic block model. This problem serves as the foundation for many other problems including the testing-based methods for determining the number of communities and...