Marta Catalano, Augusto Fasano, Matteo Giordano, and Giovanni Rebaudo’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Root and community inference on the latent growth process of a network’ by Crane and Xu
Catalano等对《网络潜在生长过程的根与社群推断》的讨论
We congratulate the authors for their methodological and theoretical contribution to the statistical literature on networks. A natural extension of the proposed PAPER model is included, with K communities growing simultaneously and where new nodes are either assigned to an existing community or elected as a new root. The employed assignment rule is of Pólya-urn type, which leads to a logarithmic growth of the number of communities (Korwar & Hollander, 1973) and is known to…