Neyman Seminar - The network histogram, nonparametric function estimation, and graph limits

Neyman Seminar - The network histogram, nonparametric function estimation, and graph limits

Neyman Seminar
Mar 12, 2014, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Patrick Wolfe, University College London
In this talk we show how the limiting behavior of large networks can be exploited for nonparametric statistical inference. We introduce the notion of a network histogram, obtained by fitting a stochastic blockmodel to a single observation of a network dataset. Blocks of edges play the role of histogram bins, and community sizes that of histogram bandwidths or bin sizes. Working within the...