Fan Wang, Yi Yu and Alessandro Rinaldo's contribution to the Discussion of ‘Root and community inference on the latent growth process of a network’ by Crane and Xu
范旺、余怡与里纳尔多对网络潜在生长过程根与社区推断的讨论
We congratulate Prof. Crane and Dr Xu for introducing a very interesting and appealing statistical model for Markovian network growth. The PAPER model enjoys several qualities. In particular, (i) it strikes a rare balance between analytic elegance and tractability, and expressive power; (ii) it allows for practicable algorithms for statistical inference that scale to networks of very large size, and (iii) it is very flexible and can be readily generalized to model a variety…