TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cecchini, Gloria
A1  - Schelter, Björn
T1  - Analytical approach to network inference
BT  - Investigating degree distribution
JF  - Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics
N2  - When the network is reconstructed, two types of errors can occur: false positive and false negative errors about the presence or absence of links. In this paper, the influence of these two errors on the vertex degree distribution is analytically analyzed. Moreover, an analytic formula of the density of the biased vertex degree distribution is found. In the inverse problem, we find a reliable procedure to reconstruct analytically the density of the vertex degree distribution of any network based on the inferred network and estimates for the false positive and false negative errors based on, e.g., simulation studies.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.022311
SN  - 2470-0045
SN  - 2470-0053
VL  - 98
IS  - 2
PB  - American Physical Society
CY  - College Park
ER  -