Community Detection I
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Here we examine multiple techniques for finding subgroups in network data. Subgroups are cohesive subsets of nodes that are more connected within than between.
Supplementary Readings
Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Shirey, P. 1990. LS sets, lambda sets and other cohesive subsets. Social Networks, 12: 337-357. [pdf]
Uddin, S. (2016). Exploring the impact of different multi-level measures of physician communities in patient-centric care networks on healthcare outcomes: A multi-level regression approach. Scientific reports, 6(1), 20222. [html] [an example of how the results of community detection are used in a regression]
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