2 papers
math.ST2022
Network homophily via tail inequalities
Nicola Apollonio, Paolo G. Franciosa, Daniele Santoni
Homophily is the principle whereby "similarity breeds connections". We give a quantitative formulation of this principle within networks. Given a network and a labeled partition of…
cs.DM2021
A novel method for assessing and measuring homophily in networks through second-order statistics
Nicola Apollonio, Paolo Giulio Franciosa, Daniele Santoni
We present a new method for assessing and measuring homophily in networks whose nodes have categorical attributes, namely when the nodes of networks come partitioned into classes (…