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The Dynamics of Faculty Hiring Networks
Eun Lee, Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore
Faculty hiring networks-who hires whose graduates as faculty-exhibit steep hierarchies, which can reinforce both social and epistemic inequalities in academia. Understanding the me…
On the frequency and severity of interstate wars
Aaron Clauset
Lewis Fry Richardson argued that the frequency and severity of deadly conflicts of all kinds, from homicides to interstate wars and everything in between, followed universal statis…
Thermodynamics of the Minimum Description Length on Community Detection
Juan Ignacio Perotti, Claudio Juan Tessone, Aaron Clauset +1
Modern statistical modeling is an important complement to the more traditional approach of physics where Complex Systems are studied by means of extremely simple idealized models.…
Scale-free networks are rare
Anna D. Broido, Aaron Clauset
A central claim in modern network science is that real-world networks are typically "scale free," meaning that the fraction of nodes with degree follows a power law, decaying l…
Eigenvector-Based Centrality Measures for Temporal Networks
Dane Taylor, Sean A. Myers, Aaron Clauset +2
Numerous centrality measures have been developed to quantify the importances of nodes in time-independent networks, and many of them can be expressed as the leading eigenvector of…
Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions
Sears Merritt, Aaron Clauset
In most professional sports, the structure of the environment is kept neutral so that scoring imbalances may be attributed to differences in team skill. It thus remains unknown wha…
The developmental dynamics of terrorist organizations
Aaron Clauset, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
We identify robust statistical patterns in the frequency and severity of violent attacks by terrorist organizations as they grow and age. Using group-level static and dynamic analy…
A generalized aggregation-disintegration model for the frequency of severe terrorist attacks
Aaron Clauset, Frederik W. Wiegel
We present and analyze a model of the frequency of severe terrorist attacks, which generalizes the recently proposed model of Johnson et al. This model, which is based on the notio…
Structural Inference of Hierarchies in Networks
Aaron Clauset, Cristopher Moore, M. E. J. Newman
One property of networks that has received comparatively little attention is hierarchy, i.e., the property of having vertices that cluster together in groups, which then join to fo…
On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events
Aaron Clauset, Maxwell Young, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
In the spirit of Richardson's original (1948) study of the statistics of deadly conflicts, we study the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks worldwide since 1968. We show th…
Scale Invariance in Road Networks
Vamsi Kalapala, Vishal Sanwalani, Aaron Clauset +1
We study the topological and geographic structure of the national road networks of the United States, England and Denmark. By transforming these networks into their dual representa…
Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism
Aaron Clauset, Maxwell Young
Traditional analyses of international terrorism have not sought to explain the emergence of rare but extremely severe events. Using the tools of extremal statistics to analyze the…