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Predicting the outcomes of policy diffusion from U.S. states to federal law
Nora Connor, Aaron Clauset
In the United States, national policies often begin as state laws, which then spread from state to state until they gain momentum to become enacted as a national policy. However, n…
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.…
Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas
Allison C. Morgan, Dimitrios J. Economou, Samuel F. Way +1
The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and…
Automatically assembling a full census of an academic field
Allison C. Morgan, Samuel F. Way, Aaron Clauset
The composition of the scientific workforce shapes the direction of scientific research, directly through the selection of questions to investigate, and indirectly through its infl…
Evaluating Overfit and Underfit in Models of Network Community Structure
Amir Ghasemian, Homa Hosseinmardi, Aaron Clauset
A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the…
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…