Growing Directed Networks: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Abstract

Based only on the information gathered in a snapshot of a directed network, we present a formal way of checking if the proposed model is correct for the empirical growing network under study. In particular, we show how to estimate the attractiveness, and present an application of the model presented in [arxiv:0704.1847] to the scientific publications network from the ISI dataset.

4 pages, 3 figures